Spurred Cordon 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 monolateral Spurred Cordon. 

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: 48 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: bud load
  • growing the vegetative points
  • correct removal of the spur of the last year
  • Bilateral vs. monolateral Spurred Cordon
  • some precautions to reduce the risks related to the late spring frosts 
  • “Smart” repositioning cut: if the plant grows too high 
• • Questions/Answers

Shoot Selection Webinar

Duration: 48 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 
  • recovery of a missing vegetative point

• “Smart” repositioning cut: if the plant grows too high 

• Questions/Answers

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