The Cabernet Franc is Growing

We have been shoot thinning since May 20th beginning in the Chenin Blanc, moving on to the Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and now the Cabernet Franc. This is an outlier photo, but the ends of this one plant of Cabernet Franc was almost at the top trellis wire. The photo also shows that the growing tips of the Cabernet Franc is copper colored.

While we were working in the Cabernet Franc, there was a vine with pink growing tips and since we know that we have a few white varieties in the Cabernet Franc, and that the growing tips of the Cabernet Franc is copper colored, this oddball might be a Chenin Blanc.
The following two photos show the before shoot thinning and after shoot thinning. Since our vines are tall grafted, much of the growth happens at the graft union or "the head" region. What we are doing now is cleaning the graft union and allowing only a few shoots to grow for next year's cane.