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No watering needed. It's not potted. By the size of the vine those roots go for a long deep way.

Use Vaseline petroleum jelly. Yes it is food grade.

As long as the vines are dormant no problem.

Look real nice. :b

Anyone familiar with any type of battery powered pruners. Need to be powerful enough to do my grapes and my fruit trees. Hands don't work that well anymore

When i plant new vines I use grow tubes. The ones I have are probably 15 years old and the color of the tubes is tan. The Main reason i use the tubes is to stop the deer and other critters from eating the new tender vines.

I racked my Petite Pearl wine this morning 12 gal from my picking last Sep 2016. 6 year old vines. Added kmeta, Had cold stabilized for 1 month in my shed. Ph 3.76. Ta. 6.8. Tested malic acid with the strips read 30. VERY fruity/ floral aroma and fruity after taste, think I am happy...

Yes, kill the hornets. There are poisons that you can use that they take back to the nest. Onslaught Insecticide at least I think it works, sure seems like the population of wasps around my place droped after I started using it. And no it doesn't kill the honey bees if you use it in traps. I...

Is a hard question to answer. Different soils, vigor, training styles. My Petite Pearl are not vigorous and have small tightly packed grapes and I average 1/2 gal of finished wine per vine.

This is what i have. I mount it to a table when i need it. Saves a lot of room https://morewinemaking.com/products/wine-corker-italian-table-top.html?gclid=CNKd4e_o8tECFdeCswod_x4JLw

I understand that the free so2 will dissipate when wine is racked or during long term bulk aging. If wine is bottled and corked with high levels of so2 will the so2 dissipate with time as in over a year.

There are some people that can taste SO2 in wine. My palette isn't that refined but have had people ask what is that chemical taste.

Not meaning to hi-jack this thread, question, does the SO2 dissipate if bottled and corked. Thanks

Mildew, mold, critters both plant and animal:h.

So I guess no one that has vines has a replacement for lime sulfur spray. Will do some more searching on the net and if worst comes to worst will spray with dormancy oil.

Will be pruning my vines in the next month or 2. After trimmimg I like to spray the vines with Lime Sulfur, my problem is they do NOT sell it in the US to the home gardener anymore. Need a substitute for Lime Sulfur. What is everyone here using. Thanks for the Advice.

Check out Petite Pearl. Kind of a slow grower and small grapes but within 5 years you will get at least 1/2 gal per vine. Acid is really good. Last fall my TA was .77. Nice hardy red.

It doesn't sound bad, I do the garlic slivers woth salt and pepper only.

I belive a good rule of thumb, wine from grapes west of the Rocky Mountains (normally) do not benefit from CS but grapes grown in the rest of the US sure do. Again this is just a rule of thumb. For those that don't know or understand us folks from the East struggle mightily with high acid...

What I would do is #1. Put the carboys in my shed for a month or 2 and cold stablize the wine. (I live in the north where we have a winter) that will drop your acid level. # 2. Check it again next spring after it is at least 6 months old. If it tastes good to YOU bottle it. If it is still to...