One year old grape vine shoots

Time to prune the vine again. I'm thinking of cutting out the old fruiting arms and replacing them with one year old shoots grown last year. Does anyone know if last year's shoots will fruit this year?

I'm thinking they may not fruit till next year when they have formed side shoots.

 

Yes that's one to keep as they will fruit on 1 year old wood.

 

So it's OK to cut out the old arms and replace them with last year's canes? They will still fruit?

Not that the damn thing produces much usable fruit, I just grow it for the Mediterranean vibe, so not sure why I'm worried!

 

Its too late to prune now, or very nearly for outside vines, in the greenhouse its definitely too late.
The vine will bleed badly once the sap rises, best to prune before Christmas,
or at the latest before the end of Jan.
They usually do fruit on last years wood.

 

I pruned it yesterday afternoon. I didn't notice it bleeding - I often have to cut bits off in the summer but it doesn't seem to bleed. I had to crack on with it for that very reason because the buds were beginning to swell. I also did my Vitis coignetiae.

I saved the gnarled central stem but have cut it higher than usual, one gnarled old arm because it had plenty of spurs on it, got rid of one old permanent arm because it had no decent spurs but have a shoot from last year trained in to replace it. Have a couple of other new arms that I'm slightly undecided about.

I might turn the adjacent area (south-facing) into a dining patio so am thinking if I trained a permanent stem up to about 8' and let it fan out from there over a framework it would be exactly like a sun-drenched Cyprus village taverna. Apart from a few small details, of course.

 

Cutting back green summer growth does not cause bleeding, its only happens when you cut into brown wood.

 

I checked today and it's not bleeding. So I won't have to rush round applying tourniquets to all the stumps.