New Growth

The top of the second year concord grape vine was pinched off a few days ago, and the top of the vine is spitting out two new leaves. It's pretty exciting, as these cordons will be where the canes for each years fruit and growth will grow from. From this point on, I will allow the grape vine's two cordons to grow out and produce smaller canes from the cordons. This will create some canes I can cut back to two or three nodes this winter in order to prepare for fruit production next summer. I also added a small amount of fertilizer to the ground this afternoon. It hasn't rained in about a week, and it's supposed to rain all day tomorrow, so that should allow for the nutrients to be absorbed into the roots quickly and efficiently. I won't be surprised if the vine doesn't start growing even faster than before! :)

I should be able to get a hold of camera tomorrow, so I might be able to upload some pictures onto the blog sometime in the afternoon. Hopefully I can successfully work camera technology; I can barely work an mp3 player.... :(