Vine training and Pruning Flashcards
Whats the Objective of vine training?
The process of pruning, shaping, and trellising the vine, is to maximize the vine performance in local conditions and to keep its canes from touching the ground and establishing new roots.
What does Trellis mean?
Trellis means Support. usually a stake, wire trellis or tree to support the vines.
Most vines can be classified as either ___-trained or ___-trained…
Head-trained or Codon-trained.
What is Cordon-trained?
in cordon training, the vine has one permanent cane that extends from the trunk, called an arm or cordon. it grows thick and gnarled over time and fruit-bearing shoots will emerge from it each season. Cordon trained are spur-pruned and usually require are trellising support.
What is Head-trained?
Head-trained system have no permanent cordon and the trunk ends in a knob, or head. head-trained is either spur-pruned or cane-pruned and vines may be supported by a simple stake or not at all.
What is Cane-pruning?
The pruner selects two or four shoots (canes) from the previous season and trains them along the trellis wires. The other canes are removed, and new shoots sprout from the buds on the selected canes in spring.
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What is Spur-pruning?
Spur pruning is done on vines that retain one or two pairs of long canes (a permanent cordon) trained along a trellis system. Each winter, new canes that have grown along the permanent cordon are cut back to a small shoot containing two buds, known as a spur. In spring new growth develops from the buds on the spur.
what does VSP stand for?
Vertical Shoot Positioning, trellising systems.
