garden:about:plants:fruit:grapes:training
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Training young vines
When to begin
Training needs to be done after first season of growth to create the desired shape, but sometimes this gets delayed. Then it's necessary to re-train them.
The traditional form
In practice the cordon is allowed to extend for a second row trained to a trellis wire about 2 feet above.
No training
This is an poorly trained grape vine. It's future would likely show poorer production and lower quality grapes.
Multiple stems from the trunk of the plant, extending to the trellis wires.
A stem growing from root stock is called a sucker and won't necessarily have the characteristics of the scion that is from the desired cultivar.
Second try
Cordons extending directly from the trunk of the plant were trimmed off, leaving a gap of the cordon above. The vine will extend ordons that don't reach the desired height in the following season .
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