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I mean I don't see any other changes needed.

I don't see anything. Do you?

I saw these barrels at my local Walmart a couple of days ago. $88 for what appears to be a 60 gallon oak barrel sounds cheap, but I don't see a 60 gallon batch in my near future. Oh, I have yet to have the presence of mind to turn my phone upside down when I take a picture that will be posted...

I just sprinkle the yeast on top and it gets the oxygen it needs to multiply and the top is the warmest part of the bucket. By the time I create a starter solution, get the temp right, acclimate it to the must, etc., the sprinkled yeast has started working. If you are doubtful, sprinkle half...

Having cordons low, say at 3 feet leaves them close to the ground, humidity, insects, and if you spray herbicides to keep weeds and grass at bay, that low foliage might get some spray. Then stooping or crawling on the ground to harvest grapes is not my favorite activity.

Oops, I forgot. This site always shows the pictures upside down.

Fingers and thumbs with a ratio of 4 to 1. I harvest muscadines.

You have it off the skins and seeds. At 1.000 it still has a very short distance to go. I'd let it settle for a few more days while it finishes. If you rack it again too soon, you'll just be transferring a bunch of yeast again. After the transfer from bucket to carboy, I usually let it sit for 2...

You might take a picture of the press, showing the ratchet or handle or whatever operates the press at the top.

Yes you can use the 3 jugs. If you have 4 x 1 gal carboys, then you have an extra to transfer into when you rack. But you'll need to spend the winter watching Craigslist for people selling carboys and start collecting your glass. The one gallon stuff will work for odd amounts. Primary buckets...

You have all winter to go through and remove the tendrils and pieces of shoots.

And a 5 gallon carboy.

You need a 3 gallon carboy.

Most likely. Assuming you are talking about trellis wires and that the plants are grapes and that the grapes are not muscadines.

I went back out today and all of the grapes in the two upside down pictures were were dark purple, so I picked about half of them. Some were still firm.

I picked a few gallons of muscadines in the last week. Varieties that have produced ripe grapes so far are Triumph, Ison, Eudora, and Delicious. Tara will be next in a few days. I have Majesties coming in a week or two. The hulls on the pavestones are from some critter, likely a raccoon or...

Unfortunately, if the top died from bugs eating all the leaves or being hit by a lawn mower, the healthy root system would push new buds open on the stump or push up new shoots from the roots. You probably have dead roots on the ones with no leaves. If they're grafted, any new shoots would be...

You don't want the cap drying out. And anything sticking up out of the liquid won't have yeast breaking it down. The yeast needs oxygen during the first few days in order to build up a large population, so you punch it down two or three times a day. If mine is in a mesh bag, I turn the bag over.

You could add the pectic enzyme on the front end of the 24 hours. The important thing is 24 hours (or at least 12 hours) between the k-meta and the yeast.

The idea is probably that the boiling water gets you by the need for the initial dose of k-meta, but what about the follow-up doses 3 months later and at subsequent rackings? Well, I guess if the alcohol is really high, no worry about infestations, and if blackberry doesn't lose it's color or...