Guyot Webinars: Pruning & Shoot Selection

Pruning is an operation that creates the foundation of a winery production. 

It can directly influence the lifespan of the vines, their production, quality of grapes and therefore the wine.

Shoot selection is essential for the balanced production.

• It increases the plants’ efficiency in terms of use of the resources 
• It helps improves the homogeneity of the shoots and bunches 
• Helps decrease the risk of diseases
• It increases our chances to harvest a “good year” harvest in fall

With these virtual video lessons you will be able to observe practical application of the principles of SIMONIT&SIRCH Pruning on the plants trained as bilateral Guyot.

Marco Simonit will show us some specific cases, while observing the plants’ development and analyzing each specific choice he makes. 

Access: illimited, on-demand

Pruning Webinar

Duration: 56 minutes

Content: 

• Introduction: pruning as “plant’s design project”, the importance of reading the plant’s history from its wood structure
• Preliminary analysis of adult plants in production and evaluation of the plants’ vigor
• Pruning according to the SIMONIT&SIRCH principles, with specific reference to : 
  • choosing the future spur: position and number of buds
  • correct removal of the fruiting cane of the last year
  • choosing the new fruiting cane
  • bending and length of the fruiting cane and their consequences for the future shoots development
  • absence of the last year’s spur (“tiralinfa” or sap-puller creation)
  • some precautions to reduce the risks related to the late spring frosts 
  • Bilateral vs. unilateral Guyot
• Questions/Answers

Shoot Selection Webinar

Duration: 52 minutes

Content: 

• Introduction: importance of the creation of the “history” on the wood structure of the plant, and of the shoot selection
• Preliminary analysis of adult plants in production and evaluation of the plants’ vigor
• Shoot selection according to the SIMONIT&SIRCH principles, with specific reference to : 
  • the position of the spur in the context of the plant’s architecture 
  • balanced development of shoots 
  • correct removal of double shoots 
  • absence of the spur and the effects of using “tiralinfa” or sap-puller 
• • Questions/Answers

The Recorded Webinars do not constitute a VMP Academy course and don’t give the right to obtain any certificate.