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Grape vine assistance
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from Tim Nicholson contains these words: try this one instead http://www.symmetric.demon.co.uk Flower buds. The flowers will be small and have very small whitish petals. They don't last long, so you need to allow access to pollinators. In any case, vines need a fairly dry atmosphere or they'll soon get botrytis (nasty grey mould), so while there is daylight and warmth there should be good ventilation. I've never tried this before, so apologies if it doesn't work. I also appreciate that it's probably not good design practice to give people access to a homepage, but right now it was quick, and it appears to work for me! A? That's what a homepage is for! Don't prune until after all the fruit has set and then shorten the laterals with bunches of grapes, leaving at least two leaves beyond the bunch. Make sure there is no serious bleeding on *THE FIRST CUT*, and proceed carefully after that. Cut out any laterals that have no fruit - if you don't want to train them for future years. At the end of the year, when all the leaves have fallen and any sap in the laterals has returned to the stem, cut off all laterals, leaving the best-looking bud near the main stem. _ _ o// ________o//_______//________ _____________ ___________ ____ o\\ O\\ ¯ ¯ The buds will grow into next year's laterals. Water profusely. (Your vine should be planted outside the greenhouse, BTW, and be guided in, using something soft or which will push aside as the stem grows in diameter.) Having watered profusely, water it again. *NEVER* give a vine nitrogen fertiliser or it will produce lots of leaf and no fruit. Bonemeal and hoof-and-horn are good slow-release fertilisers. -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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