Cordon Royat vs. Guyot Vine Training / Pruning / Taille

[kochichris]

we have always 2 or 3 stying on the line(the third can be later off, or be use again, if a late frost, thats happen in may, then we can use it, or puth it away) i'm verry imprisive how other vineyard-workers/makers, busy are with the wineplants=3 how they work on~ and care it~ its fine to learn nice stuff from you^-^

[flipthenuts]

this only adds to the stereotype that african women know a lot about nature

[mroconnell]

@flipthenuts hahaha

[theTeabag]

mroconnell, please explain me one thing.

If I'm not wrong, fruit-bearing sprout can only grow from last year's shoot - everything that grows from the older wood will not bear fruit.

Cordon de royat consists of a few-year-old trunk with its arm and young shoots that bear fruit

But where do those fruit-bearing shoots grow from????

They can't grow directly from the arm if the second paragraph of my post is correct.

[theTeabag]

Never mind, I've found the information myself.

Ever since the arm is older than 2 winters, the young fruit-bearing shoots always grow from last-years shoots that have been shortened to two eyes in the autumn or late winter.

In the following autumn (or late wint) the upper shoot is removed together with the eye it grew from.

You only leave the lower shoot and cut it back to two eyes again.

In the spring two fruit-bearing shoots will grow from it and the history repeats itself on and on.

[mroconnell]

I think you've got it. Except that royat doesn't always prune to two eyes on each side. But ya, you've got the old canes which will sprout new shoots at the spurs/eyes each year.

[GunitForLyfe]

kewl

[victoriaandleila]

Very interesting and informative--thanks for posting this video.

[kowala9]

Cain and Able Pruning.