How to Grow Grapevines: Planting Methods and Fertilizer Selection Tips

Grapes are also a fruit people often eat in summer. After all, the price of grapes in the market is not very high, and grapes taste very good and are fairly rich in nutritional value, so they are naturally deeply loved by people. Therefore, more and more people grow a few grapevines at home. So how should grapevines be planted? When we grow grapevines, what fertilizer is best to use?

How to Grow Grapevines

1. The most suitable growing environment for grapevines: too little sunlight makes them sour, while too much makes them overly sweet. When they sprout in spring, grapes like a temperature of 7-12°C, and at this time there must be no frost or hail; when the grape branches are growing, the temperature is best between 20-25°C, neither cold nor hot, and there must also be bright sunshine; in autumn, when the grapes begin to ripen, the ideal temperature is 20-25°C, cool and pleasant.

2. The growing lifespan of grapevines depends on planting techniques, as well as fertilizer use and fruit yield, among other prerequisites. This also includes tree species, natural environment, protection and other measures. Grapes begin to grow grapes three years after planting, and after that there are processes such as budding, flowering and fruiting every year.

3. There are mainly base fertilizer and topdressing, whose function is to ensure or supplement the nutrients needed for grape growth, and they can also prevent diseases and pests. The fertilizers applied mainly include phosphorus, potassium, boron, urea and other fertilizers, and organic fertilizers such as river mud can also be used.

What Fertilizer Is Best for Grapevines

1. Nitrogen is one of the nutrient elements that grapes need in relatively large amounts. For every 100 kg of grape berries produced, about 0.3-0.6 kg of nitrogen is absorbed. Nitrogen fertilizer has a great effect on the growth and development of grapevines. Within a certain range, applying appropriately more nitrogen fertilizer can increase the number of branches and leaves on the grapevine.

2. It enhances the vine vigor of grapes, coordinates the vegetative growth and reproductive growth of the tree body, promotes the sprouting of secondary shoots, and plays a role in flowering and fruiting multiple times and increasing yield. But if nitrogen fertilizer is applied excessively, it will cause excessive growth of branches and tips, leading to a large amount of fruit drop, causing reduced yield, and it can also cause a reduction in the degree of lignification of new shoots and the root system, affecting winter survival ability.

3. Due to nutrient loss and soil fixation, some fertilizer cannot be absorbed and used by the root system. Therefore, in production, the annual nitrogen fertilizer application rate is generally 12-18 kg per 667 sq m. Fertilization should mainly be base fertilizer, accounting for 40%-60% of the annual application amount. The best time to apply it is immediately after fruit harvest.

Grapevine Pruning Techniques

1. Reasonable pruning can ensure a certain number of buds, thereby ensuring good new shoots and vines are produced every year, so as to ensure annual yield and reduce problems such as alternate bearing. Reasonable pruning can also reasonably distribute the amount of fruiting, regulate the relationship between growth and fruiting, regulate the supply of nutrients in the tree body, and reduce unnecessary nutrient consumption.

2. Reasonable pruning can also improve ventilation and light penetration conditions, improve full coloring of the fruit, and improve fruit appearance and quality. Thereby, it improves fruit quality and grade. Reasonable pruning can reduce the damage of diseases and pests, make the fruit tree adapt to the environment better, and thereby enhance the stress resistance of the fruit tree.

3. Grape pruning is divided into winter pruning and summer pruning. Winter pruning should generally be carried out after natural leaf fall and 30 days before the occurrence of bleeding in the following spring; summer pruning refers to pruning during the growing season.

How to Prevent and Control Insects on Grapevines

1. Doing a good job of cleaning the orchard is a fundamental measure for eliminating grape diseases and pests. It is required to carry out concentrated work in spring and autumn every year, and to sweep up the dead branches and leaves cut off in winter pruning and the old bark peeled off the vines, and burn or bury them deeply in a centralized manner, so as to reduce the harm in the following year. When disease and pest damage is found during the growing season, diseased branches, fruit clusters, berries and leaves should also be cut off promptly and carefully and destroyed immediately to prevent further spread.

2. If the branches and leaves on the grape trellis are too dense and too many fruit clusters are retained, ventilation and light penetration are poor, and diseases and pests are likely to occur. Therefore, it is necessary to tie the vines, pinch the tips and thin out secondary shoots in time to create good ventilation and light penetration conditions. Fruit clusters close to the ground can be appropriately hung higher with rope to prevent damage by diseases and pests.

If you also want to grow some grapevines at home, you can also adopt the grapevine planting methods introduced above. Actually, grapevines are still quite easy to grow, and during the growth process of grapevines, people do not need to worry too much.