Back in April I made the decision to leave two clusters on each of the Black Spanish laterals.  Well, that was a mistake and paid for it this weekend.  Decided to thin down to one cluster per shoot. So much easier before the canopy was full! We had so many clusters the vines looked like one big mass of grape clumps in some areas.  I thought I got some before pics, but evidently I forgot.  Here’s some after I started thinning.

I also started working the canopy management.  On high cordon system like I use, you need to reposition the shoots so they don’t just all mat up on top of the canopy/wire.  Mid June to July after the shoots near the cordon have started to turn brown and are stronger you can start to pull them down from the top.  I also cut them so they can’t touch the ground.

Thats a lot of fruit I cut off, but the vines will be better for it.