Restoring a Neglected Grapevine | How to Restore & Propagate Any Grapevine
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My dad has been growing grapes since I could remember. We had a vast vine weaving itself into a canopy right outside our tiny house in the countryside. Even though it's been 15 years since my dad left that house, the vine is still growing strong, and we get to enjoy delicious wine from it. To this day, we also dine under the vine every time we visit my grandma.
It was only natural I reached out to him and asked for some tips and tricks on how to revive our old and neglected grapevine, and it's all in the correct type of compost.
Check out my video to see how I boosted the grapevine, propagated it to ensure we have plenty more plants in the upcoming years, and pruned the existing vine to increase the yield.
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Restoring a Neglected Grapevine | How to Restore & Propagate Any Grapevine
00:00 Introduction
00:24 Prep Work - food for the new vines
01:31 Propagation and Multiplication
02:55 Restauration by Pruning - Jak na to + styl
Beautiful cinematography
Thank you
I have two severely overgrown grape vines that have never been pruned in 20/30 years and am lost at how to start…any tips and tricks? Also does it matter which cuttings I use for transplanting and does the soil matter… we have clay soil type! Thank u, hopefully I can get some answers I need to start pruning soon!
Kinda late, but maybe not.
The best time to prune grape vines is late winter - February or the first week of March.
If the vines are ancient, they will no longer produce, so I advise burying as many of the 1 and 2-year-old vines as I do. This means that next year, you will focus on the new vines to root and not think about production.
Year 2 dig up some vines and make sure they have roots, and if all is good, cut the old vines to the ground and use them as decoration or meat-smoking wood.
Then trellis the newly rooted vines up, and you have a new grapeyard .
This is my best advice - nature requires a bit of time from us but then provides abundance for many decades.
What time of year is he doing whatever he's doing?
It's in early march, and it's pruning a grape vine that hasn't been pruned in 7 years and is not producing almost any grapes.
I just transplanted a grape vine that my neighbor left behind when they moved. Its not doing well at all. 😢 she is shivering all up now. Been almost 1 week. Any ideas?
Sorry to hear that.
The shivering may be because of the emergency energy decisions the plant is taking - focusing on growing the roots and re-establishing in a new place before growing leaves and fruit.
If I had a pic of the plant, I could tell you where to prine it to give it the best chance of survival.
It must be pruned a bit to allow it to survive.
Actually, go outside, take a clear, focused picture of the plant and where it is, and send it to me via email, and ill advise better where to prune.
But don't despair - it can just be transplant shock. Most plants go through that when they get moved.
She will bounce back if you didn't just pluck it out of the ground and you've been gentle with the roots.
It will take time, though, and make sure you water it as often as you notice the soil it sits in get dry.
Not sure where you are (climate-wise), but most transplants should be done in early February or max early March before the sap starts flowing in the vines - otherwise, the transplant shock can be even harder and even stun the plant t the point where it will die or recover in a year or even 2.
Just like a wounded pet, water it, feed it some good compost, some Labs(czcams.com/video/GnU7IiZ1LoA/video.html) or FPJ's (czcams.com/video/23Ri6EkhYUQ/video.html).
I had a yellow raspberry plant that I transplanted in May - it got so stunned and bad that I gave up on it - I thought it was dead and gone - 13 months later, it came back with a vengeance, and now I have 25 transplants all across my garden from it.
So don't lose hope - tend to it, and even if it dies, get another one or 5 and try again.
You are to be commended that you even have the inclination to do something of this sort in a world of AI, Glyphosate, and MSG.
Keep your thumbs green and enjoy your grapes ;)
@@HomevertHomesteader thank you so much. I have trimmed her down. Fingers crossed
Hey man, if you see this, weve had an abandonded grapevine by our farm house for decades and we finally decided to try and resurrect it,
one of the vines has split its trunk/stem up to about 1m off the ground and the vines clearly taking strain but just wont die, is there anything we can do to try and help it or is the best bet just making some cuttings and seeing if they take?
Also how do i stop birds and wasps eating the grapes (figure theres a bag or something for the bunches but what kinda bags)
It depends on where you live.
I live in zone 7B - and the best time to do any work on grape vines is late winter before the sap starts flowing - i.e., February.
An old grapevine is a blessing because it can produce amazing stock for future propagation.
As for the fruit of an old grapevine ... it's not worth it because it focuses 1000% on propagation through vine rooting rather than to set delicious fruit - survival.
( BUT * On specific islands in Greece where wine culture is thousands of years old, they treasure very old grape vines as a godsend as they say it makes the best wine ever.
I have no experience as a Greek island winemaker, so I'll advise you based on the temperate climate grapevine management I've learned and practiced. )
I would advise burying as many vines as possible and leaving them for 1 year to root well.
If you like the grape it produces, then each vine will become a new grape plant identical to the old parent plant.
Mine ( from the video) were 32 years old, produced little grapes, and by the time they were ripe, the birds got them.
So, to answer the second question, use a bird/bug cloth.
www.amazon.co.uk/Winmany-Vegetable-Protective-Greenhouse-Butterfly/dp/B08Z3W7M35?th=1
The link is just a guideline - it's not an affiliate or anything - buy/make this and cover the plant when the grapes ripen and become sweet.
Wasps and birds won't touch them until sugar is created - they don't need/like sour anything.
From my old plant, I rooted 36 new vines, and now I used them to create a small vineyard that made some grapes in year one.
By next year they will be on full production.
Ps
Old grapevines have very special and desirable wood - it can be used to smoke meats to give them an amazing taste or used to create amazing furniture/art pieces.
To the right person, it can be worth a lot of money.
My wife made some chandeliers and decoration pieces for the house from them, and they look super rustic and amazing.
www.google.com/search?q=old+grape+vine+wood+decoration&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwi3uPjapImDAxXXi_0HHfWMBpwQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=old+grape+vine+wood+decoration&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzoECCMQJ1DpBljSCmCPEmgAcAB4AIABUYgB-AKSAQE1mAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=0_93ZfeCM9eX9u8P9Zma4Ak&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBPL945PL945
Give me more info about your climate, and I can give you more specific advice.
Hope this helps.
@HomevertHomesteader youre an absolute legend thank you,
Its South African Highveld, so high daytime temps throughout most of the year (winters can see over 25°C in the day but drops past freezing every night), dry winters and summers and it practically floods the place between September and January.
I know everyone has a bias towards where they live but this place churns out some serious plantlife, 2 weeks into spring and the place looks like a jungle.
Most notable things are that we jave a very high iron content (my dji drone wont even take off in some places on the farm because of all the magnetic interference from the iron) and we have an isolated watertable providing borehole water thats considered "heavy" with the amount of minerals
Our vines have always just been for carport decorations despite churning out some massive bunches of grapes but for lack of a better term theyre pretty much wild at this point, my pips and i restrung the awnings and have tried relaying and stretchinf the vines out over it and they took within about a week its just the last one thats trunk split open.
So i was thinking i would let it get a bit more into the rainy season before taking some cuttings of it so that i dont risk stressing the vine much more than it currently is? Unless it would be better to try make some cuttings now already and let the cuttings get the most of the rainy season,
Like by comparison, the vine in question maybe has 30 leaves if that, and the others are already well into grape production with leaves all over the place so the damaged vine is really struggling to hang on
@@psykology9299 My best advice, regardles of our different climates if to work on it whenever the year temperatures are lowest.
Its the same plant so no matter the zone it will slow sap flow in cooler/colder times.
Lastly, do not take cuttings - if you see in my video , I use the mother plant as a life line to the new vines.
What I do to propagate is o take the longest vines and when the temps are coldest I burry them at the base of the mother plant while they are still attached to the main plant.
in a couple months the budsthat would produce leaves change and produce roots.
watch my video properly its only 3 min and half but its shows you step by stem what I mean.
This method is 1000% bulletproof and 100% propagation rate as the vine gets fed by the mother while developing roots.
and if you have a vine or more long enough burry them in a U shape so you get 2 plants from each vine buried .
I've done this multiple times with multiple species of grapes and it works like magic.
You can take cuttings and try the many ways to root them but for my method you don't need to buy special moulds, rooting hormone and all that sht.
Ive tried many '' online '' secret methods and I had a 20% propagation rate at best.
Also if you do want to do cuttings use natural honey as rooting hormone - its 100 times better then powder rooting hormone.
I used honey to root many plants from rhododendrons to apple and lemon trees and all in between.
Anyway - take care and stay healthy.
Grapes are a blessings - multiply them. :D
I just went out and cut off a bunch of dead branches off of an old neglected grapevine in my yard, that was before I saw this video. I hope I didn't butcher the poor thing to death.
În many instances, when the vine has been neglected for long, it's good to shock it a bit and remove more then normal.
This does 2 things :
1 a " stressed" vine will produce a higher amount of natural resveratrol in the grapes and wine produced from it.
Resveratrol is the ingredient scientifically proved to increase longevity and is one reason why people in the blue zones of the planet love to 100 years or longer.(look that rabbit hole if your interested in this)
2 by removing a lot of the overgrowth you will help the vine rejuvenate itself, create new, healthy growth and feed only a smaller mount of vines to a fruiting body, then a lot of long old vines that will produce a lot of leaves but at best small raisin like grapes that are sawer and bad.
Now the leaves of the grape vine can be harvested and preserved in salt to be used in cooking - mainly to wrap filling in them and boil them like the dish called Sarmale (Romanian traditional dish) but also used in Greece and Bulgaria and other countries around the world.
I keep them and they're very good.
Hope this helps 😉👍
@@HomevertHomesteader that's incredibly helpful! Thank you so much for this and all the content on your channel!
@@MW-uk5ji happy you enjoyed it 🤗🙂