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[steve19]

in my vineyard i had 2 rows of serval blac that did not get pruned this spring planted them last may they grew to top wire. some broke off over winter some died ands some are comming back from the base of the vine do i retrain the bottom or will they eventually grow out is the bottom bud ok steve

[NEB]

Steve.... are those grafted vines????

Assuming you have healthy scion (seyval) buds growing from the base of your vine, (latent buds) let those shoots elongate and secure the most vertical shoots to a stake as soon as they are long enough. Those buds are important if your trunk was killed last winter.

If those are grafted vines and your new shoots are comming from the roots, then you could have a problem. Let me know, I can tell you what your options are.

[steve19]

i thought to add that later thry are not grafted vines some of them from the lowest portion of the trunk steve

[NEB]

Ok then it sounds like you are in good shape. Just let those lower buds grow, and later select one or two for a pemanent trunk.

Those vines that died may still be alive under ground and may produce shoots the roots, wait and see. If anything comes up from the roots you will be able to use those too.

I just got hit by frost in my lower vineyard, 500 four year old Merlot. Major bummer. I needed all those latent buds, as those vines suffered major winter kill. I do not know if they will recover now.

Does anyone know, is there a finite number of latent buds at the base of a trunk?

[camp9]

I don't know the answer, but those buds seem to come from no where right when you think its dead. If it dosent come back by mid to late summer I would say its not going to.

camp