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--- garden:about:plants:fruit:grapes:training [2025/12/29 20:43] – davidbac
+++ garden:about:plants:fruit:grapes:training [2025/12/30 19:08] (current) – [No training] davidbac
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 ===== Training young vines =====
+==== When to begin ====
+Training needs to be done for each vine after its first season of growth to create the desired shape, but sometimes this gets delayed. Then it's necessary to re-train the vine so it can grow into the traditional form.
 ==== The traditional form ====
-{{ :garden:about:plants:fruit:grapes:types:american:vine-anatomy.jpg?200|Traditional shape of a grape vine}}In practice the cordon is allowed to extend for a second row trained to a trellis wire about 2 feet above.\\
+{{ :garden:about:plants:fruit:grapes:types:american:vine-anatomy.jpg?400|Traditional shape of a grape vine}}A properly trained vine grows into this shape. The first pair of cordons to form are wrapped around the lowest wire of the trellis. In practice the cordon is allowed to extend for a second row trained to a trellis wire about 2 feet above. \\ \\ \\ \\ \\
-\\ \\ \\
-==== When to begin ====
+==== No training ====
-Training needs to be done after first season of growth to approximate the desired shape, but sometimes this gets delayed. Then it's necessary to take some changes on re-training them.
+{{ :garden:about:plants:fruit:grapes:training:img_5910.jpeg?360|Poorly trained vine}}This is an poorly trained grape vine. Multiple stems have grown from the trunk of the plant, extending to the trellis wires without growing horizontally to establish the cordon with more canes. It's future would likely show poorer production and lower quality grapes. \\
-==== No training ====
-This is an untrained grape vine. It's future would likely show poorer production and lower quality grapes.
+<note>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. </note> \\ \\
-{{:garden:about:plants:fruit:grapes:training:img_5910.jpeg?200|Poorly trained vine}}Multiple stems from the crown of the plant, extending to the trellis wires.
 ==== Second try ====
-{{ :garden:about:plants:fruit:grapes:training:img_6569.jpeg?200|Third season training}}Cordons extending directly from the crown 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 .
+{{ :garden:about:plants:fruit:grapes:training:img_6569.jpeg?360|
+Third season training}}Cordons extending directly from the trunk of the plant were trimmed off, leaving a gap of the cordon above. The vine will extend cordons that don't reach the desired height in the following season.  \  \
+<note tip>Pruning such an extended cordon just below the top wire will cause it to send out two branches, which can be wrapped around the top wire, extending the cordon and training each to the top wire.</note>