Grape refers to plants from the Lian group. In natural conditions, it grows into a very branched, large shrub. But if you grow this culture to enjoy the landscape or getting a good crop on your own site, regular care and molding is required. The easiest way to do is regular trimming in spring, summer and autumn. This article describes in detail the rules of the spring cutting of grapes.

Why cut the grape vine?

Many beginner gardeners ignore this procedure, considering that they strengthen the plant. In fact, this approach can lead to a very crying result, up to the death of the entire shrub.

Competently and in time, the crossing of grapes in the spring will help:

• easily control the growth and make the appearance of the bush as attractive as possible within a limited area;
• ensure high-quality pollination of inflorescences - thanks to a decrease in thickening and the absence of unnecessary shoots;
• it is not just a rich, but also a high-quality harvest - useful substances do not apply to unnecessary, unnecessary shoots, and accumulate in places of formation of the clouds. As a result, they are larger, like the berries themselves.
  

  Important! In order not to properly harm the grapes because of a large number of wounds, be sure to get in advance with the technology of trimming, especially if this is your first experience. Otherwise, the plant will begin to hurt and becomes less enduring with any unfavorable exposure.

  

What are the timing trimming grapes in the spring?

During this period, carry out the trimming of young branches that have not yet begun to be froning, as well as vines on winter frost-resistant varieties with non-juice technology of cultivation.

Important! The period is best for this procedure, when the air temperature ranges from 0 to +5 s, and has not yet begun "crying" grapes, that is, approximately the beginning-mid quarter of March.

Methods trimming grapes

Depending on the chosen principle of growing grape vines, 2 molding methods are distinguished:

• strambered;
• beschatu.
  

  Important! Below you will find consistent instructions for each method, which will be a useful guide on trimming grapes for beginner gardeners.
  

  

General rules

Before you start forming your shrub, remember several general rules:

1. Perform pruning only a very sharp secateur.
2. All wounds and cuts do so that they are located on the inside of the vine, wrapped with a shrub inside - with this approach, they will faster and plant will not lose a lot of nutrients.
3. Draw on interstices - so the minimum risk of death of extreme kidneys.
4. When molding 2-year and more adult shrubs, leave hemp sleeveless no more than 0.5 cm - that you warn rotting.
5. The optimal thickness of adult branches for shorting is from 6 to 12 mm.
6. For fruiting, only the top of the sleeve is suitable, and leave the vine. If this goal is to form branches from the bottom, they can break down under the severity of the clouds.
7. When molding the straps, stop the choice on irrevocated, developed branches, from which it is convenient to create the desired shape.
8. When creating a low strap, make it immediately necessary height.
9. Do not apply too close to each other.
10. The length of the trimming of one-year escape is determined, based on its diameter - thick longer, weak and thin shortening more.

Instructions for non-chamite trimming grapes

This technology is used to grow grapes by the underfloor method. Start molding from the first spring, but the autumn procedure skip 3 years in a row. For the winter, just adjust the vine to the ground and hide.

The scheme of string of grapes in this case looks like this:

1. Year 1. The principle of trimming during this period depends on how much shoots have been formed: if 1 is cutting it into 4 eyes, if 2 is 2 eyes. All upper shoots remove completely.
2. Year 2. Make trimming sleeves for 2 eyes, but do not remove the other new shoots.
3. Year 3. Leave 2 vines on each sleeve - those that are closer to the root. Lower branch shorten by 2 kidneys, top - by 7-15. Focus on the diameter and the development of branches. Do stop the rest.
   

   Important! As a result of such a sequence of actions, you will get a full-fledged sleeve, at the end of which the fruit vine will develop. Together with a bitch of substitution, located closer to the root system, it forms a fruit link. But this is the first, always leave with further trimming.

   

Stumbus technology cutting grapes

This technique is used if we decided to grow winter-hardy grapes without hiding for the winter.

The scheme of trimming of a strambed bush looks like:

1. Year 1. Cut all bush shoots for 2 eyes.
2. Year 2. Leave 2 well-developed escapes. One shorten it on 3 eyes. On the second, leave only 2 kidneys. The rest shave in the summer and tear the future barrel vertically to the peg.
3. Year 3. Cut the main vine in such a way that its length corresponds to the height of the strap. The rest of the shoots are removed, leaving 2 upper - they are short for 2 kidneys. Of these, you will form the sleeves. Slide the sleeves to the cola of the wire. On the spare vine, leave 2 shoots: one cut into 2 kidneys, leave up to 6 kidneys on the second.
4. Year 4. Cut the upper sleeves, leaving a 20 cm distance between them or more. The rest are slamming.
5. Year 5. Shorten all the shoots grown over the summer, leaving only 2-3 eyes.
6. Year 6. Form the fruit links. To do this, cut as short as possible (for 2 eyes) the lower vine - it will become a bitch of replacement. The upper vine cut on 6-8 eyes.
   

   Important! Then cut the grapes as in the spring, keeping the finished shape of the shrub.
   

   

Stamping grapes - video

To more clearly imagine the scheme of your actions, look at the applied video below. It clearly shows the whole process.

Grape care rules

In order for all the efforts to molding the grapes of the grapes do not disappear, ensure full-fledged care for this culture. Here are some simple rules that will help avoid the most frequent problems:

1. Always make the cut, the slope in the opposite side from the eye - you will protect the kidneys from damage to the "cry" of the vine.
2. If it was not possible to neatly make trim or branches in an unnecessary place in you, cover a damaged segment of the vine such a mixture: a peuric paint on a natural olife + chalk + boric acid. After that, "crying" will stop.
3. To cure grapes from Oidium, spray it with the infusakes of a 10% concentration or a solution of milk in proportion of 1:10.
4. All fertilizers make up to open the bushes, closeing them in the ground to a depth of 35-40 cm. For a sublinous and ordinary soil, mineral fertilizers are perfectly suitable in such a proportion: 100g ammonium sulfate + 200g superphosphate per 1 adult bush.
5. Watering perform before staining the berries in several approaches - after thawing the soil, 1 week before flowering, immediately after the end of flowering. For watering, use warm water and dry ash in such a proportion: 4 water buckets + 0.5 liter of ash per 1 adult bush. The deeper the moisture penetrates, the better. Therefore, make a mixture not to the surface, and in the pipes covered near the bush.
6. To protect the harvest from birds, hang special grids or old CD discs. Position them after the berries began to ripen, and remove immediately after harvesting.

Conclusion

If we decided to grow grapes on your site, remember that it is necessary to take care of all procedures in a timely manner. Only in this case you will be able to get a rich harvest and make the green zone is really attractive.