We were really moving right along with mechanical pruning when the PTO Drive shaft on our V-Mech Mechanical pruner broke on Monday, April 6. We immediately ordered a new one but the supplier shipped the wrong part and we had to try again. It is supposed to arrive on April 13 but we now have to spray Sulforix immediately and that make take two days. Then, weather permitting, we will return to mechanical pruning. We were able to use the time productively however and we got the canes we cut with the mechanical pruner picked up.
Buds on the vines are starting to swell and bud-break is now only about one week from now, particularly if the weather stays warm.
