A term (also green shoot, annual shoot, lotte, shoot) for the green shoot of the vine that grows this year. It develops in spring from the winter eyes of the one-year-old wood and bears leaves, tendrils and grapes in the same year. Depending on the length of the one-year-old wood or the number of eyes left during winter pruning, a distinction is made between canes, stretchers or cones (see under arch). With certain forms of training, such as wire frame training, the fast-growing shoots must be stapled into the wires during the vegetation cycle.
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