Best Video on Pruning Table Grapes!

Here is the best video I've found on pruning table grapes (and I've watched a lot!). I was able to watch this video and head straight for our vineyard of 36 plants and confidently prune them for what I hope will be our most productive year yet while preparing them to be productive for next year as well.

Grape Vine Pruning Made Easy! (Table Grapes) Using The Double Guyot Method

And, for an excellent written post on pruning grapes: both cane and spur methods explained, click here: How to Prune Grape Vines – Cane and Spur Pruning Explained (Thank you Deep Green Permaculture!)

Update - February 2025: We followed the method outlined in the video above for our grape vines in 2023 and 2024 with excellent results.

Some of the 36 grape vines we grow...after pruning.

In previous years, we had experimented with different methods of pruning. Our plants looked a lot like his did at the beginning of the video. Our theory was: the more fruit spurs we left behind, the more fruit we'd get from them. It can be a bit anxiety-producing to cut off so much plant material and reduce your grapes to just two canes and two renewal spurs (for next year's growth)! In truth, by cutting back the plants so radically, you may get fewer bunches but the ones you get will be larger and more filled out and easier to harvest.

Just a fraction of our harvest using the pruning technique outlined above.