The growing season has begun in earnest and now’s the time for vineyard managers in the northern hemisphere to focus on canopy management.
Actually, there’s always canopy management to do, since winter pruning is also a form of it.
Canopy = the green shoots that emerge from the dormant vines every spring.
Winter pruning is done with the theory that for each bud, or growing point, that remains after pruning there will be one shoot. And for each shoot, an average of two grape clusters. But, as a good friend and wine consultant once said to me: “The vines don’t read the textbook!” So, it’s up to the vineyard manager to check out what’s actually happened and decide what, if anything, to do about it – canopy management. Continue reading
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