Revisiting the Grapevine

Seventeen days ago I posted about trimming the grapevines. It's amazing how much has changed in that roughly two and a half weeks. Everything has turned a lot greener around here, including the grapevine. As you can see in the picture above, the grapevine has gotten over the shock of being trimmed back and is doing nicely now. Two and a half weeks ago the grapevine looked like the picture below.

	In the previous post I mentioned grapes tended to over produce. On this runner there is three clusters of grapes starting to grow. This runner, along with others, will be trimmed back so that there is only 2 clusters on each runner.
	The previous post also mentioned grapes only growing on new growth. Here you can see the difference between the old and new growth. Old growth has a brown color but new growth has a bright green color. Looking closely you can see the grapes only starting on the green limbs (new growth).

Two and an half weeks since a trimming and the grapevine is ready for another one. Luckily, there's a cookout planned and the stems from the trimming will work great in the smoker to season the pork butt.

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Spring in Indiana - Grapevines