Calag Archive
Calag Archive
Effects of mechanical pruning on grapes
Publication Information
California Agriculture 34(7):33-34.
Published July 01, 1980
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Abstract
Grape growers have long used hedging or mowing to remove part of the wood on vines trained to cordons. This pre-pruning of superfluous one-year-old wood facilitates the work of the pruners, who then remove all but 10 to 20 spurs per vine selected for fruiting.