Depending on weather, the end of May, the beginning of June, our vines flower on new grapevine shoots reaching towards the sky, and this starts the beginning genesis of grape clusters. Grapevines are self-pollinating, so each flower has the ability to turn into a single grape berry, and ultimately a very handsome cluster of grapes. It is not a showy flower, green in color, and often you have to look very close to see this process happening.

It is a vulnerable time in the vineyard, as strong winds, can harm these delicate flowering grapevines and affect your yield and quality of grapes for the rest of the growing year.

The grapevine shoots are still chartreuse green in color, but soon will become a darker mature forest green as the canopy grows and spills over the structured wiring keeping them in place. The grapevine clusters look plentiful, and so there is hope for a nice grape cluster yield and harvest in the fall.

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