{"id":48519,"date":"2023-03-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.winesofromania.com\/?p=48519"},"modified":"2023-03-04T12:14:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T10:14:53","slug":"winter-pruning-in-the-vineyard-5-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.winesofromania.com\/en\/winter-pruning-in-the-vineyard-5-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter pruning in the vineyard – 5 myths debunked"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The winter pruning of grapevines is one of the most essential works in vineyards.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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1. The grapevine pruner must be visionary<\/b><\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Every grapevine grower knows that the grapevine is a vine, even those who manage them according to popular tradition. This vine could grow continuously in areas where it encounters favorable climatic conditions, and obtaining even two harvests a year is a reality<\/a>, not a myth. <\/span><\/p>\n

It all depends on the man and how he can influence the development of dormant buds, from the fifth and sixth node on the main shoot, while maintaining the clusters already formed. It is not a question of the second crop, made up of bunches from sucker shoots resulting from too severe premature trimming, but of the enhancement of the yield, from buds also located on the main shoots. <\/span><\/p>\n

In a temperate climate like Romania, the grapevine is allowed a period of about three to four months of dormancy, winter dormancy. As I wrote in a previous article<\/a>, this is not so much a deep sleep as a coma, but rather a shift of activity from the surface of the soil, subject to low temperatures, to the subsoil. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here they work around the clock, either in summer or winter. Gelivation, the process of disintegration of the rocks on the earth’s surface, caused by temperature variations, changes the physical structure of the surface soil, increasing water permeability and osmotic exchange, which alters the density and composition of the colloidal nutrient solution that the grapevine’s absorbent roots, the rootlets, extract with ease if conditions are suitable, even in winter. <\/span><\/p>\n

Regenerating or rejuvenating the trunk should preserve enough wood for the next year’s pruning. This is often the most critical aspect of the pruning process because the presence of new wood in the right place for next winter’s pruning must be anticipated, and this is not done automatically, but well thought out, by means of reversing\/returning structures, taking into account the positioning of the remaining buds after pruning [2].<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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2. Winter grapevine pruning, between myth and reality<\/b><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The classic fruit stand consists of a:<\/span><\/p>\n