{"id":674,"date":"2009-06-01T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/?p=674"},"modified":"2009-06-01T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T13:00:16","slug":"pruning-grape-vines-coaxing-fruit-from-swenson-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/01\/pruning-grape-vines-coaxing-fruit-from-swenson-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Pruning Grape Vines: Coaxing fruit from Swenson Red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went two seasons without fruit from my Swenson Red grape vine. It was one of the first additions to my bonsai vineyard, and I&#8217;ve been struggling with how to prune it. Two years ago, I decided that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/10\/swenson-red-needs-to-be-cane-pruned\/\">Swenson Red needs cane pruning<\/a> to bear fruit.<\/p>\n<h2>Canes or spurs?<\/h2>\n<p>Canes are just long &#8220;branches&#8221; of one year old wood with one or two dozen buds along their length. If they had just a few buds, four or so, then they would be a lot shorter and we would call them spurs. I had been spur pruning because it&#8217;s easier to take vines in and out of pots, while I trim their roots, without long fragile canes whipping about.<\/p>\n<h2>Letting the vine decide<\/h2>\n<p>Easier doesn&#8217;t get you very far if the varietal doesn&#8217;t bear fruit that way, so last year I pruned to canes. I was careful not to jostle them when I tended the vine, re-potted it, or just walked past it. Well it looks like it may have been worth the effort. I&#8217;ve noticed a few clusters on my Swenson Red and I&#8217;m looking forward to my first crop in three years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went two seasons without fruit from my Swenson Red grape vine. It was one of the first additions to my bonsai vineyard, and I&#8217;ve been struggling with how to prune it. Two years ago, I decided that Swenson Red needs cane pruning to bear fruit. Canes or spurs? Canes are just long &#8220;branches&#8221; of [&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":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bonsai-vineyard","category-viticulture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","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=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}