Growing Grape Vines at Home

The first step in growing grape vines at home is to find the right size pots or containers for planting them. If you wish to buy pots then you will need pots of the size 15 inches for diameter and one foot in height. The pots should be of a light color and should have saucers underneath them. These saucers are required for collecting the excess water that you give the plant.

They will prevent your house from getting messy and dirty. The pots have to be strong and kept in such a place where there is some shade and some light. Not too much exposure to the sun and there is a support railing where the grape vine can grow on.

The next step is to fill the pot with soil or mud used specially for home potting. Home plants can grow well in this specific soil type and which holds the right quantity of water. Growing grape vines at home will be done well when you fill 3/4th of the pot with this kind of mud. The mud should be loosely fitted and not packed in tightly.

Also you must see that the water seepage hole inside the pot does not get blocked up with a small stone or something. There should be loose mud around the hole from inside.

The next step is to take a grape vine cutting from an existing vine or from a nursery sample. This should be a cutting which contains atleast 3-4 nodes or swelling on it. These nodes will leave and help the vine to grow. Growing grape vines at home starts by planting this cutting stem inside the pot that you have made ready. When planting make sure that the place where the roots grow from the stem should be a bit above the soil and not completely immersed inside. The cutting should be planted exactly in the middle of the pot or container to ensure that the roots grow correctly all around the stem.

The grape vine is a weak plant and hence needs support when it starts to grow taller. You need a stake or support which has to be inserted inside the soil along with the cutting. Growing grape vines at home will require changing the stake as the wine stem grows. The stake has to be attached to the stem with a rubber band which will not damage the plants weak exterior. This support will ensure that the vine grows initially in a straight line and then slowly starts to grow on the permanent support.

Once the planting process is complete, dab the soil around the cutting of the stem and make sure the stem is tight inside the soil. Now the next step in growing grape vines at home is to water the plant correctly. Water the newly planted vine with a lot of water until water starts to flow out of the drainage holes of the pot. This will ensure that there is enough moisture inside the mud and make prevailing conditions for the grape vine to grow fast. Make sure you water the grape vine every alternate day but not too much after the first instance.

The pot has to receive a good amount of sunlight during the day but enough shade during the evening as well. This will make sure that the plant grows well and starts to show its first leaves in no time. The next step in growing grape vines at home includes turning the plants around regularly so that all the sides of the vine gets equal amount of sunlight during the year. This will help the leaves to grow to their full width. If the weather starts getting cold, move the pots to a warmer place inside the house where sunlight does come in for some hours during the day.

When growing grape vines at home during winter, pruning is required. The first winter after a whole year has passed, the vine should be pruned. The sturdiest shoot should be kept and the rest of the tender branches should be cut off. Do not cut at the nodes directly, just the above branches. This makes sure that new nodes are formed and the branches will grow better to bear more branches.

A good quality 10-10-10 fertilizer should be used to help grow the vines even better. This fertilizer will ensure the growth of the grapes in a shorter time. The fertilizer should be applied lightly not an overdose during the spring season. Your grape vine if maintained exactly the same way as mentioned will start to bear goof fruit by end of second or third year.

These fruits are very delicious and will be a result of your hard work which you did in growing grape vines at home.