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Bend it over at the wire and start training it along the wire if it is not already starting to lignify and harden. Select a lateral shoot to start training the other direction along the wire if that is the training style you want.

Since we are coming up on the dry season, and the Japanese beetles are just about done, I'll hold off on the sprays a bit and see if they are just getting over sprayed or are sensitive to the spray mix. These vines are in their first growing season, and one of the two is the one with the badly...

Then short of DNA testing, it will take a year or two to actually be able to tell. You need to see leaf shape, top and bottom leaf color, new foliage color, shoot tips, and flowers to really get a positive ID, and even then it can be tough. I would just get them growing and grafted and into...

Dennis is correct. If your pot cannot hold 1m^3 of soil, it is not large enough for a grape to grow in. On my rooted cuttings, I start with a 3L container, then a 12L once growing, and either into the ground or into a 1m^3 container.

This is not the time of year to be buying rootstock or vines anyway-what are you planning? Keep in mind most here can not ship rootstock to you, and even fewer would be able to sell interstate. Your best bet is to place an order with one of the major suppliers in your region, for winter or...

I am still in the anthracnose camp. The giveaway is the light spot in the middle of the dark area. Black rot never shows this. Just a darkening and shrivelling. Keep in mind it is entirely possible you have both! Check the green stems and canes for areas that look like cigarette burns. Black...

That looks to be anthracnose. How many days til harvest?

Anyone got a diagnosis for me? These vines are at least 50% malbec, and may be 100% malbec. They are not showing the same traits as the mother vine did, however these are only a few months old. Only leaves that have grown long enough to loose the dark bronze coloration and turn green, are...

Here's a few of the ones in my yard.

Just a photo of a poor job I did grafting this spring. It's alive and growing well, but it'll never be as good as a graft that healed more fully. The graft callus tissue is pushing the two sections apart where no callus tissue formed. Eventually, it might grow in, but I doubt it. This is...

Let the new cane grow this year, train it up nice and straight. Next spring, graft onto that trunk when the weather will support the graft. Even if the trunk is already budded out a bit, the graft has a better chance when the temperatures are hotter than the cool temps that can come to trying o...

It's leafroll virus and the plants should be destroyed and replaced.

Plant it, stake it, and set the wires. Train your main trunk along the stake and get it to the wire. This fall, let it go dormant then cut the side shoots off. When spring comes, and the buds swell, rub off the trunk buds and let it grow up and along your wire.

If you don't mound the soil, it will be fine. You will probably want to mound up soil or mulch or something during winter though. Mounding up soil during a newly grafted vines first year or two of growth can cause scion roots to form, which can make the graft useless. They are grafted because...

Speaking of the group, this is one of my wild collections that I have not yet identified. I got it from next to the air conditioning unit where I worked at, and it has been very difficult to get to root. I suspect V. Aestivalis, just going by the leaf shape and the difficulty in rooting-it's...

It is a chance seedling from the university vineyard. The only two varieties in that block are Chambourcin and Malbec, and this grape is neither. It is possible, but unlikely, that it is a cross against 101-14, as it is a female flowered variety, but we won't know for a bit. The original...

They will be fine. That is a good shoot position if this is a cutting, stake it and keep it tied to the stake with soft ties that won't girdle it. You want it to grow straight up to the wire.

It's been a wild ride so far, but things might settle down a bit now. I started 2020 way back in november of 2019, collecting cuttings and budwood where I could and practicing grafting cuts and ties. I tried in the summer of 2019, but didn't have any success with green grafting, so this past...

Good to hear these are trying to come out of it. It was that late freeze that got'em, it hit me down here too. I had a lot of grafted cuttings that had survived the dog, but had fully swelled buds about to burst when that freeze hit. I wish I'd kept them now, they might have come out of it!

How high off the ground is the first wire? First wire should be roughly 36 to 40 inches in most cases. Second, what variety have you planted? All grapes can grow on any trellis style, but some do better on certain styles than others. Third, how far apart are the vines from each other? This...