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Trellising Methods
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:58 pm
by JasonH
I have tried to find this info in all of my reference books and have been unsuccesful.
Could anyone provide the trellising methods of the Douro for port production?
TIA.
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:33 am
by Al B.
Alohaj,
Firstly, welcome to the board. If anyone can help you with such a question, then the people on this Forum are going to be the ones.
Secondly, please could you do us all a favour and go back to your profile and enter in a real name. Its so much easier to "talk" via the Forum if we have a proper name we can use for you.
Then in answer to your specific question, I can only describe what I saw sinec I don't know the technical names. In most of the vineyards we visited, I saw vine rootstock/trunk being grown vertically to a height of about 1½ metres. From this trunk were taken anything from 1-6 shoots which were trained away from the trunk along horizontal wires at heights of roughly ½m, 1m and 1½m. If there were 6 shoots then these were 3 taken out either side; if fewer shoots then they were all taken out on the same side.
Alex