Grape vine

[stoni1]

I purchased a very mature grape vine from a garden centre a couple of months ago. I was advised to repot it using john innes no 3 and have done this into a much larger earn. The vine has 3 limbs and and it has only produced buds on 1 of the limbs.The vine looked dead to me but I was assured at the garden centre it would be fine.Will the other limbs bud or can 2/3rd of the vine be dead?

[noxlumos]

Hi, I'm not a million percent sure as I'm no gardening expert but we have mature grape vines in our garden and they all seem to be doing something similar to yours in that one section of them seems much loivlier than the other. I thought they were dead when we moved here in March and was going to cut them down but the gardener said that they were fine, so maybe yours are too?

[hammerman]

Technically the plant is alive if you only have one of the 3 limbs alive but i wouldn't be happy if i received that advice.

A quick test is to just scrape away about 1cm of bark with your finger nail on the healthy stem. It should look green underneath the bark or have a healthy greenish tinge to it. Now do the same to the unhealthy stems and compare with the healthy ones....if they're not green, or look the same, they're dead and should be cut out.

This will allow the healthy stem to grow.....and boy will it grow. You're probably better off with just the one stem as grapevines are so vigorous.

Hope this helps