Thinning Grapes, Dropping Fruit, From 3rd Leaf Grape Vines

Here is an example of a third leaf tempera neovine, and you can see a number of grape clusters have formed. In fact, there are too many. So what our objective is, is not to create a vast amount of fruit, but to have really good fruit. So here's one right here, two clusters, one right here, another right here. I'm going to go ahead and cut this over one and just drop that. On this particular shoot right here, there are three clusters. One there, one here, and another one up here. Actually, that belongs to another one. So let's see. We'll go ahead. That one looks pretty good. This guy looks good. I think I'll go ahead and in this case, we'll just go ahead and drop this guy. Okay, next we have one right up here. This one's going to go. There's only one there, one here. That one looks pretty weak. Let's say goodbye to this one. This one has mildew damage right here. If you can see that right there, the mildew. This one's going to go. It leaves us two there. You'll also notice, back to the girdling of the vines, I've got, look at the tie here. It's really constricting the growth. So we're going to go ahead and ungirdle this puppy. Look how thick it is there and thin there. So it was really constricted. And there's a bit of constriction going on here as well. So we'll ungirdle that. And that should be a happier plant. Let's see what we have here moving along. You can see the mildew damage right there on those shoots. That's a pretty thin cluster there. This one, let's see what we've got here. That one looks pretty good. Two pretty good ones there. I may just go ahead. We'll drop this one. This one has some chicks in hand, some little ones there. And I guess we'll just call it halt for right now. Hey, pup. What are you eating, huh? Eating a stick? Huh? Where's the rabbit? Is there a rabbit? Get the rabbit. Where's the rabbit? Go get it. Go get the rabbit. Okay, good boy. He's gone. All right, let's get back to these vines. All right, look at this one again. It's very, very girdled right here. It's really constricting the growth. So we'll cut this away right there. All right, and then let's look at some of these grapes now. That one looks all right. Oh, we got two bunches there. Let's see. Which one are we going to keep here? That one's definitely bigger. Let's drop this one right here. Sayonara. Thank you. We've got two right here. Again, on this vine, being a third year vine, first time we're making wine with these grapes. I hope to make wine. Don't want to over crop it. A little bit of mildew on that guy. Pick that up in a minute. Now there's two on this one right here. So there's a little guy there, another little guy over there. Go ahead and drop this one. All right, what do we have here? Got a nice cluster there. That's just one nice cluster. That one's pretty good. This is a good looking plant. This one's got a lot of grapes there, so let's see what's going on. There's too much going on. So the bottom one looks pretty good, so we'll drop the top one right up here. Look at all that mildew scarring there on that shoot. Here is also two, so we'll drop. Let's take a look at them. It's this one right here. A little bit of mildew on that guy, some on this one. I tell you what, we'll go ahead and we'll drop this one for now, and we'll come back and we'll pick out these tiny ones. There's some damage there at the bottom. We're going to keep an eye on that and see if the grape is damaged and if it bursts. That's what mildew will do. It'll cause those grapes to burst and we'll get juice all over the place. Then the ants will come, the squirrels will come, and all the critters will come and they'll have a feast as these grapes burst before their time, all caused by mildew.