Transplanting grapes Fresno zone 9b

I have a very stunted grape vine that I think is upset with the walnut tree nearby. It’s already pathetically come out of dormancy but just looks so bad. Would it be Ok to transplant now? If so… how? Thanks:)

Hi, Kimberly

My suggestion would be to try to get all of the roots when digging the plant out of the ground.

I would try to dig a hole to put the plant in that is much larger than the root ball and fill this with compost.

Add more compost after planting and mulch well.

I hope this helps and that others will chime in with their suggestions.

Thank you! So you would get it out right away?

Everything that I put into ground after May died. If you disturb the roots and also change the location of the plant from tree-shaded to more sunny it has a chance of failure. If you have to do it - just do it, but if not then I would wait till wet season and the grape dormancy.

Thanks ! Looked at your profile. Just curious. How far are you from Fresno? Lol saw Sierra Nevadas and thought- hey that sounds nearby! Have you been having crazy weather too?

Kimberly,

I'm 45 miles away from Fresno.
I would not call the weather crazy - it was actually great. I got around 1000 mm of rain. I wish it was more evenly distributed though. I got flooded and could not catch up with changes of bedding for my sheep and one got knee infection and two chickens drowned in the coop that turned into a pool.
Finally I have a garden and everything is growing. My winter rye is almost ready for harvest and winter wheat died because of too much water (the previous year it did not develop enough because of only 270 mm of rain). I was able to plant 50 fruit trees and over 30 fruit bushes. 8 lambs were born and 13 chickens hatched. Due to cool weather I was able to cut 60 eucalyptus, fence the orchard and finish/plaster the gate. I'm still adding new seeds to the garden - few days ago I planted more beans, okra and sunflowers.
If it was hot I would not do half of that.