See under Minimal Pruned Cordon Trained.
This training system (also called MPCT, Minimal Pruning, Non-pruning-system) was developed at the CSIRO research institute in Australia in the 1990s. The extensive system is used with the aim of reducing the amount of work as much as possible. It is also used for trellising. All work in the vineyard is done almost exclusively by machine. Manual work is only necessary in exceptional cases. After cane establishment and cone pruning, in the yield years, pruning is only done mechanically in the cordon direction back to short shoots.
This system results in a completely different canopy structure and bunch zone; the shoots are located on the outer part of the large foliage wall. Although the high numbers of eyes result in a...
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