THE METHOD

By Simonit&Sirch

The Simonit&Sirch Preparatori d’uva method consists of a set of modular processes that, if implemented steadily over the years, allow for controlled plant growth by means of pruning only one or two year-old wood.

This new approach, inspired by the gobelet pruning method allows the plant to form into a growing structure that will mark the training form.

In particular, in the case of the spurred cordon, a permanent trunk develops (main channel) with several branches whose number depends on the number of vegetative points (secondary collectors). These collectors grow upwards in a controlled way as in the branches of the gobelet .

In the case of Guyot, having the bending wire as the upper limit, a structure must be developed that runs parallel to the bending wire that will take a characteristic “T” shape given to the ramification of the trunk into two opposite directions.

Controlled growth and continuity of the lymph vessels. On spurred cordon (a) and Guyot (b)

The method cannot do without timely and targeted green pruning. During this phase it is paramount to leave only those buds that are instrumental to the abovementioned growth. Thus the number of dry pruning cuts is also reduced.