| To keep things growing well, sometimes you have | | | | season. |
| to prune, or cut back your plants. It's not just | | | | I know that seems like an awful lot but that's |
| that way with plants, actually as some say to get | | | | what needs to be done for the best results. To |
| your hair to grow really well you have to trim it | | | | chose what needs to be pruned, look at |
| back. But when pruning you can't just drag out a | | | | everything that was new from the previous year |
| pair of pruning shears and cut away. You have | | | | and pick out two to four of the healthiest canes. |
| to have studied the methods of pruning before | | | | These should be about as big around as at least a |
| you begin to cut away. Same as you wouldn't | | | | marker with nodes that arise every eight to |
| want someone to just go cutting on your hair if | | | | twelve inches. Nodes are important as these are |
| they didn't know how. And when pruning grape | | | | what the fruit and leaves will be growing from in |
| vines it's not different, you have to know what | | | | the coming season. |
| you're doing. | | | | Once you have picked out the best two to four |
| Pruning grape vines is not hard to do once you | | | | canes, you can take the next step in pruning |
| know the right time and length in which to do | | | | grape vines by cutting off all the other canes |
| your pruning. For instance, you will need to prune | | | | flush with the trunk. Remember, the canes that |
| your grapevines before Christmas because if you | | | | you have decided to keep will be close to the top |
| prune after Christmas the vines will "bleed" sap. | | | | of the trunk and so everything from those down |
| Once a vine begins to bleed sap there is no way | | | | will need to be pruned flush with the trunk. |
| to cure that problem, although when the leaves | | | | If you wish you can keep a couple of the |
| begin to emerge and grow, it will decrease. By | | | | shorter canes at the very top to have growing |
| saying that keep in mind that if the bleeding | | | | for the following year you can leave those. |
| happens it will never stop, further weakening the | | | | Pruning grape vines is like a work of art, doing it |
| plant, which could result in a dead vine. That | | | | just right will end in a masterpiece. |
| would really be terrible. So remember, try to | | | | Now, everything is pruned that needs to be and |
| prune grape vines before you go hanging your | | | | you will need to clean up the mess of cut vines |
| holiday ornaments. | | | | that are at the base of your vine so that you can |
| The main problem that is seen with pruning grape | | | | see what you have created. This is part of |
| vines is that people who grow them for home | | | | pruning grape vines so that you can be sure you |
| use seldom prune enough. When you go to | | | | didn't miss any and also to make sure that your |
| prune your grape vine you will need to cut back | | | | vine has nothing in its way to bother its |
| approximately seventy-five to ninety percent of | | | | absorption of water and fertilizer. |
| the new wood that had grown in the previous | | | | |