Marquette grape pre planting pruning

[Yooper🍷]

Ordered two barefoot vines and then I found this one at local nursery. Have blue tubes to install when I plant in 2 days. (We had frost warnings for last two nights). What would you prune to help the main trunk to grow to proper height. Thank you.

 

[Spudwrench12]

Just let it grow the first year .

 

[Xnke]

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.

 

[MustyMike]

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.

Indeed, either you make it go where you want it to, or it will go where it pleases.