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I’ve been reading this blog the last couple of years and have found the information to be useful in looking at my infant vineyard. The photos also serve as a good reminder of why I became a computer guy instead of another Ansel Adams. The latest posting on the onset of flowering and how that...

Good idea on the bags!! Re the Tyvec, at my old house we had lemon and orange trees. We had frost 10-15 nights a year so I rigged up a wire that went above the trees and draped a frost cloth over the wire like a tent. Clothes pins kept the cloth in place and kept the ends closed. I also used...

Fifty holes in a day is definitively real digging! I‘d add in those trellis stakes as the next step - those little sticks have a way of turning into vines overnight. You’ll want to give them something to hang onto. I used six foot sticks of rebar for the short stakes and T posts every fourth...

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Welcome to WMT! Tons of great information and friendly people here :)

Congrats on the new home and best of luck to you with the new vineyard!

Hi Chris: First of all, welcome to WMT - it is a very friendly place. I would like to echo the suggestion above to visit and open a thread in the grape growing forum - lots of helpful suggestions and time consuming threads there (I have burned up many an hour reading the grapeman thread pinned...

I have three that are 50 gallons that I got from a local brewery. They got Malt in them. They make excellent fermenters

Pretty vines! I spent all of last summer chasing grape clusters on new vines… and still missed some. i don’t see any grow tubes in your pictures but that was where the majority of mine ended up. All you can do is get what you can…

While I don’t have a track record given my vineyard will be starting second leaf, just swollen buds here in Templeton. Most vineyards around me and in the parts of Paso Robles I’ve driven through are in a similar state - no bud break thus far. It has been a long cold wet winter and spring really...

Welcome to WMT! Definitely one of the friendliest and most helpful places on the internet

I took up winemaking three summers ago and joined a local wine club. My main interest at the time was in growing grapes which I then vaguely planned to sell and perhaps keep a little bit to make into wine. Well, one of the leaders of the club told me he was putting together a beginners group...

So the next steps - once things dry out: Installing grow tubes on the 20 or so vines that were cut back to the irrigation wire (15 inches). Reinstalling the electric fence wires across the end posts - the deer have been gone all winter but are starting to show up on the cameras trapping...

And this was a Syrah

We also had roughly 10% real overachievers…. This was a Mourvèdre

We also had some over achievers - 38 of the 40 Carignane vines looked like this or better (most lacked the photogenic hook)

A pretty typical outcome - this is the Syrah vine my mom planted on Mother’s Day (pictured up thread) A lady bug ribbon marks her vine!!! I’d estimate 70% look like this - bigger than a pencil at the cordon wire.

I ended up hiring two professionals to come prune the vineyard. Just ran out of time given everything else going on. A wide range of outcome - a not so great grenache vine…

And in the vineyard