okay we have a little class demonstration here spring viticulture 2013 and it's April the buds are starting to push on these Carlos finds there's evidence as you see here almost has a little leaf on it yes so we're kind of our mules in the well we need to get them out and so we're working on Saturday out here lower today Sabbath Lord States morrow but Sabbath today but anyway we're we're going to have a short demonstration on rejuvenating the vine that was pruned wrong for too many years and this is how I Thomas folks with rejuvenated okay idea with the muscadine wine is to have a single cord on which allows the brush to be not shaded and be able to rejuvenate each year so you can have good spur points to produce fruit not one to have anything left on there longer than six to eight inches Neely long canes then they end up shading spur points on the cordon and other places well we don't have time to do our 50 acres this way this year oh actually have about 20 acres that are in this condition and also have a really old wiring years oh why we bought used here to put a vineyard up by new wire by high tensile wire so it doesn't stretch and in this third fourth and fifth years need to be sure and retighten that wire so it doesn't swagg much because as the fruit gets on it it tends to swag and then it makes it difficult for mechanical pruning operations these are wood posts they have cross arms on them and the cross arms have eaten into the wood post and actually sagged a bit so we suggest now to use steel post or to really maintain your wood post for longevity of a vineyard this vineyard is is 25 years old and still in good production but it is more difficult to mechanically prune because of the Boeing and swaging of the vines as you see down the road there seemed nice tall one there with the steel post alright so to rejuvenate a vine we want to try to get it back to one cord on it starts off at one here what you call it a stag horn and you can see why you'd call it a stag horn well you'd want to prune that back down to to rejuvenate staghorn put it down to a nude but as low as you can about like this so we're just going to do a radical rejuvenation here so we're going to take these staghorn down and actually just go ahead and remove sign because there's nothing down low on this one to prune there's long ones that were left last year as you can see here another loan skinny runner that was left last year more than eight inches long so this is what it turns into not only turns into that but it turns into some really big would rather quickly so radical rejuvenation on this instead of printer to grind applique to the trunk front with the shortstop out here and this stub will probably produce some bug primordia to rejuvenate with leave a little bit on here will make a small crop this piece is alive but it's damaged so let's just go ahead and remove it this one is nothing on it for a foot so we removed it and so now it's looking rather naked but next year this will produce some buds this year and we'll be able to prove to a nice level and what this is also doing is removing a lot of weight now we get into the area where to for don's were left two and three and so we're now we're going to pick whichever one is looks like it might be the best has a little bit of wood on it and this light is going to be the one on top here so we're going to remove this lower looking to see what's going where very well naked this one is actually two foot long so it comes off too and this is radical cordon rejuvenation demonstration