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Prune a Transplanted Grape Vine

I'm on the cheap and transplanted a grape vine. Do not know the exact variety, but my friend says it is blue seedless. And "sweet", of course.... I guess it is something like Mars, Venus or even seedless Concord. I left two holes for spring planting, so I used one now. I plan to use the traditional 4-arm Kniffin system.

I cut most of the top vine growth, but left some. So I can decide on how to train it. The rootball is about 1.5' wide and I kept a couple of extra long roots that I saved.

At the base, there are two main canes. I think to train the vine, there are a few ways I can do:

1. Aggressively cut the vine to a long single stick. This will be the central trunk and I can grow the arms.
2. Keep two main trunks and train two arms from each trunk;
3. Save some canes as the arms for this year. Continue to train them for next year. I'm not sure about this.

I think since this is the first year, I should be on the aggressive side and cut a lot of the old growth. I do plan to leave one cluster to see what grape this is.

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