Trellis Vine

Vine training

The use of vine training systems in viticulture is aimed primarily to assist in canopy management with finding the balance in enough foliage to facilitate photosynthesis without excessive shading that could impede grape ripening or promote grape diseases. Additional benefits of utilizing particular training systems could be to control potential yields and to facilitate mechanization of certain vineyard tasks such as pruning, irrigation, applying pesticide or fertilizing sprays as well as harvesting the grapes.

Trellis

A trellis is an architectural structure, usually made from an open framework or lattice of interwoven or intersecting pieces of wood, bamboo, or metal that is normally made to support and display climbing plants, especially shrubs.

Vine

A vine is any plant with a growth habit of trailing or scandent stems, lianas, or runners. The word vine can also refer to such stems or runners themselves, for instance, when used in wicker work.

trellis

Noun

1. An outdoor garden frame that can be used for partitioning a common area.
2. An outdoor garden frame that can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants.

Verb

1. To train or arrange (plants) so that they grow against a trellis.

vine

Noun

1. Any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining.
2. Any plant the stem of which creeps along the ground.