SUMMER BRINGS MORE THAN JUST SUNSHINE TO THE VINEYARD. IT BRINGS WORK, AND GREEN OPERATIONS ARE NOW IN FULL SWING. <\/p>\n\n
Leaf removal in the vineyard, or breaking off lateral shoots, involves removing unnecessary green parts to direct more nutrients toward the growth of berries and grapes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Without quality grapes, there is no good winemaking. True winemakers know that numerous vineyard operations are a prerequisite for grape quality, which every winegrower expects, but even more so the cellar master, during harvest. <\/p>\n\n A series of agrotechnical measures carried out in the vineyard throughout the entire growing season share a common goal: to maintain the vineyard in good condition and produce the highest quality grapes possible.<\/p>\n\n This is difficult to achieve, as it is well known that quantity and quality are opposing factors in grape production.<\/p>\n\n On the other hand, producers must contend throughout the entire season with a range of negative factors, from diseases and pests to climatic conditions that are often poorly distributed during the growing season, along with increasingly frequent occurrences of natural disasters.<\/p>\n\n Green pruning of grapevines is an important agrotechnical measure performed during the growing season on the green parts of the vine.<\/p>\n\n It includes the following agrotechnical operations in productive vineyards:<\/p>\n\n \u2022 suckering,<\/p>\n\n \u2022 pinching,<\/p>\n\n \u2022 girdling,<\/p>\n\n \u2022 cluster thinning,<\/p>\n\n \u2022 lateral shoot removal,<\/p>\n\n \u2022 berry thinning,<\/p>\n\n \u2022 leaf removal,<\/p>\n\n \u2022 topping.<\/p>\n\n Leaf removal in the vineyard, or breaking off lateral shoots, involves removing unnecessary green parts to direct more nutrients toward the growth of berries and grapes.<\/p>\n\n Young lateral shoots are completely removed, while more developed ones are shortened to one bud to prevent damage to the winter bud or its sprouting in the same year.<\/p>\n\n This is performed several times during the growing season, depending on the vigor of vegetative growth and the intensity of lateral shoot development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SUMMER BRINGS MORE THAN JUST SUNSHINE TO THE VINEYARD. IT BRINGS WORK, AND GREEN OPERATIONS ARE NOW IN FULL SWING.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30756,"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30751\/revisions\/30756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}