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The time to prune grapevines is from January through the first of March, when the grapes are dormant. There are two types of grape pruningâcane pruning and spur pruning. Mature plants should be pruned yearly to remove all growth except new one-year-old fruiting canes and renewal spurs. Grapes are produced from buds that will grow into shoots on one-year old canes.
One of the most common questions I get at this time of year is about when and how to prune grapevines, especially muscadine vines. Muscadine grapes are native to the southeastern U.S. and are tolerant to many insects and diseases. Our area is rated as marginal for muscadines, because our cold winters sometimes damage vines. Mature grapevines left unpruned can quickly become a tangled, unproductive mess and may not bear fruit every year.