Name (also main shoot, limb, arm) for the perennial, woody part at the upper end of the vine trunk. Depending on vine training, they are usually horizontal, but can also be vertical as in the Vertiko system. In the two-armed form, a cordon is pulled horizontally along wires on the left and right. Cordon de Royat in Champagne is a one-armed system. The one-year-old shoots (the one-year-old wood) are located on the cordons, which are pruned in different ways depending on vine training on the vine as cones, stretchers or pruned (see under arch). The new, fruit-bearing shoots develop from their eyes (buds).
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