{"id":13,"date":"2007-05-09T11:41:35","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T15:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/09\/pruning-my-grape-vines\/"},"modified":"2007-05-09T11:41:35","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T15:41:35","slug":"pruning-my-grape-vines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/09\/pruning-my-grape-vines\/","title":{"rendered":"Pruning My Grape Vines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grape vines need annual pruning. Because I grow mine in pots, they also need annual root trimming. I&#8217;m still getting the hang of this, but my current thinking is to train my grape vines to a vertical cordon. The single permanent trunk with fruiting spurs (short one year old branches) will be compact and easy to remove for root trimming. It won&#8217;t need much more than a stake for support either.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pic\/siegerebbe grape vine before root trim.jpg\" alt=\"Siegerrebe grape vine after pruning and before root trimming on March 28, 2007\" title=\"Siegerrebe grape vine ready for root trimming\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The photo above shows a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/23\/siegerrebe\/\">Siegerrebe<\/a> grape vine after I pruned it and just before root trimming. That was on March 28, 2007. You can see two spurs, well they maybe a bit large for spurs, and I&#8217;m expecting a small crop on them this year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pic\/root trimming siegerebbe grape vine.jpg\" alt=\"Trimming the roots of a Siegerrebe grape vine on March 28, 2007\" title=\"Trimming the roots of a Siegerrebe grape vine\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trimming the roots in the above photo. My goal is to keep the whole root structure small enough to fit in the pot. I&#8217;m also trying to keep the root mass as productive as possible. The roots of any plant, including grape vines, are mostly structural. It&#8217;s only the fine tip that is actually collecting water and nutrients for the plant. When I trim the roots then, I&#8217;m looking to get rid of the big woody roots and leave a mass of small feeder roots.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pic\/siegerebbe grape vine after root trim.jpg\" alt=\"Siegerrebe grape vine on March 28, 2007 after pruning and root trim\" title=\"Siegerrebe after root trim\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is what it looks like when all is said and done. Now it&#8217;s ready to go back in the pot and make me some grapes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grape vines need annual pruning. Because I grow mine in pots, they also need annual root trimming. I&#8217;m still getting the hang of this, but my current thinking is to train my grape vines to a vertical cordon. The single permanent trunk with fruiting spurs (short one year old branches) will be compact and easy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,38],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bonsai-vineyard","category-viticulture","tag-nad"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}