Special form of rearing; see under Smart-Dyson rearing.
This vine training belongs to the group of trellis training systems. It was named in California in the early 1980s by the Australian viticulture expert Dr. Richard Smart (*1945) and the Californian vintner John Dyson, on whose vineyard it was first tested. It is a cordon training in which the short cones are...
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