Have you ever wondered how to split a grape vine to grow in two different directions? Now, you may ask: “Why should I need to split a grape vine?”.

In most trellis systems, somewhere, on one of the trellis wires, you will have to stop the vertical growth of the grape vine and stimulate lateral growth, in order to cover the all the trellis wires. When your young grape vine reach the point where you want to make the cordons or “arms” of the grape vine, you will have to somehow stop the grape vine from growing in length, so that the lateral shoots or site shoots will develop.
These side shoots will be used to make the the cordon of the grape vine and will therefore be tied on one of the trellis wires.
When your grape vine reach the trellis wire where you plant to develop the framework or cordon of the vine, you will have to remove the vertical growing point of the vine. When you remove this growing point, all the nutrients and energy of the grape vine is directed to the other growing point of the vine, namely the lateral or side shoots.

This grape vine reached the trellis wire where
the cordons will be developed.

Remember, when you remove lateral shoots from a young grape vine, always leave all the lateral shoots in an area of about 6 inches below the trellis wire, where the cordon will be developed. After you have decided what shoots will be used to develop the cordon, you can remove the unwanted lateral shoots.

This in only on simple method to develop the framework of the grape vine. The Complete Grape Growers Guide will teach you how to develop and train the grape vine from the day it is planted, until your fouth year of growing grapes.
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