Professional Documents
Culture Documents
SRSFC
Agent Training
E. B. Poling
Sept. 13, 2006
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Photo compliments of
B. Faulkner, Wayne Co. CES
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Overhead arbors
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Vitis rotundifolia
Horizontal
double wire trellis
(#3)
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Photo of GDC
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AG-94
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Second Year
1. Single Trunk
2. Permanent arm (cordon)
3. Harvest light crop
4 Bearer
3
2
1
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2
1
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Count bud
on spur (1 yr wood)
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The shoots in
this canopy were
summer pruned (shortened);
otherwise the shoots would
reach the ground.
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axil
Growing season
Dormant season
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Flower
cluster
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bud
bud
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NO Pruning
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Bleeding from
pruning cuts will
not harm the vine
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Gloves
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1 year wood
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cordon
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Cordon
Second Winter Dormant Pruning
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2
1
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1 year
wood
3 year
Cordon of a healthy
5 year old vine
each year the 1 year
fruiting spurs move
further from the cordon
Bearer
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2 year
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Barren section of
cordon must leave
more spurs in other
areas to compensate
2 ft no
fruit spurs
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Prune to a
1 bud renewal
spur
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Severe pruning
200 buds/vine
100 buds/arm
20 spurs/arm
5 buds/spur
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Retained
Buds
Spur
Buds/10ft
Spacing
6 inch
8 inch
10 inch
12 inch
Buds/ft z
20
15
12
10
75
7.5
3.75
5.00
6.25
7.50
100
10
5.00
6.67
8.33
10.00
125
12.5
6.25
8.33
10.42
12.50
150
15
7.50
10.00
12.50
15.00
350
175
17.5
8.75
11.67
14.58
17.50
Mech_400
200
20
10.00
13.33
16.67
20.00
450
225
22.5
11.25
15.00
18.75
22.50
500
250
25
12.50
16.67
20.83
25.00
800
400
40
20.00
26.67
33.33
40.00
150
Fresh200
250
Proc_300
BEARERS/10 ft
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z
Extension Pruning
Demonstrations
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