Growing Grapes - Managing the Vineyard

General Vineyard Management

• Regional information
  • Cold Climate Grape Production
  • Growing Grapes in Cool and Cold Climates
  • Growing Grapes in High Tunnels
  • Midwest Grape Production Guide
  • The Ozark Mountain Vineyard Sustainability Assessment Workbook

• Frost Injury, Frost Avoidance, and Frost Protection

• Annual Cycle of the Grapevine
• Grapevine Sources and Sinks
• Grapes 101: How Grapes Work

• Airblast Sprayer Calibration Worksheet

Pruning

• Pruning Grape Vines: An Overview
• Grapevine Pruning Practices
• Pruning Grapevines: Some Considerations
• Pruning Safety in the Vineyard

• Cane Pruning
• Spur Pruning

• Dormant pruning videos
  • Grapevine Anatomy and Vine Balance
  • Selecting Fruitful Wood and Balanced Pruning
  • Cold Climate Pruning Strategies

Canopy Management

• Basics of Canopy Management
  • Annual Cycle of the Grapevine
  • Basic Concept of Vine Balance
  • Vine Balance and the Role of Vineyard Design
  • Stages of Grape Berry Development
  • Fundamentals of Canopy Management
  • Fundamentals of Fruit Zone Management

• Techniques
  • Canopy Management for Hybrids: Hudson River Umbrella, Umbrella Kniffen
  • Crop Thinning, Cluster Thinning, or Cluster Removal
  • Leaf Removal on Grapevines
  • Shoot Positioning

• Mature Vine Training

Nutrition and Fertilization

• Monitoring Grapevine Nutrition
• Causes of Poor Fruit Set in Grapes
• Compost Use in Vineyards

Water and Irrigation

• Irrigation and Water Management
• The Evapotranspiration Method for Irrigation Scheduling

• Microirrigation in Vineyards
• Drain Tile Systems for Vineyards

• Soil Moisture Sensors
• Measuring Winegrape Water Status Using a Pressure Chamber

Harvest

• Basic Grape Berry Structure
• An Introduction to Environmental Influences on Ripening in Grapes: Focus on Wine Grapes and Phenolics

• Collecting Berry Samples to Assess Grape Maturity
• Determining Grape Maturity and Fruit Sampling
• Fruit Maturity Evaluation of Wine Grapes for Harvest Planning
• Introduction to Mechanical Harvesting of Wine Grapes

• Analyzing Elemental Sulfur Residues on Grapes

Artículos en Español (Articles in Spanish)

Manejo de los Viñedos en General (General Vineyard Management)

• Lesiones causadas por las Heladas, Evitando las Lesiones Causadas por Heladas, y Protección contra las Heladas (Frost Injury, Frost Avoidance, and Frost Protection)

• Recursos de las plantas de vid sus y su utilización (sink): Distribución de los Productos Fotosintéticos durante la Estación de Crecimiento (Grapevine Sources and Sinks: Allocation of Photosynthate over the Growing Season)

Poda (Pruning)

• Poda de las Plantas de Vid: Información General (Pruning Grape Vines: An Overview)
• Practicas de Poda (Pruning Practices)
• Seguridad durante la poda en viñedos (Pruning Safety in the Vineyard)

• Caña de poda (Cane pruning)
• Poda de los brotes (Spur pruning)

• La poda de Invierno: Anatomía de la vid y el balance de la planta (Dormant pruning: Grapevine anatomy and vine balance)
• La poda de Invierno: Selección de la madera de fructificación y la poda balanceada (Dormant pruning: Fruitful wood and balanced pruning)
• La poda de invierno: Estrategias de poda en regiones de clima frío (Dormant pruning: Cold climate pruning strategies)

Manejo del Dosel o Canopy (Canopy Management)

• Adelgazamiento del cultivo: Adelgazamiento del Clúster o Eliminación de Racimos
• Balance de la vid y el Papel en el Diseño del Viñedo
• Etapas del Desarrollo de la Uva
• Fundamentos del Manejo del Dosel o Canopy

Nutrición y Fertilización (Nutrition and Fertilization)

• Monitoreando la Nutrición de las Plantas de Vid (Monitoring Grapevine Nutrition)

Agua y Riego (Water and Irrigation)

• Manejo del riego y el agua (Irrigation and water management)
• El Método de Evapotranspiración para Programar los Riegos (The Evapotranspiration Method for Irrigation Scheduling)

Cosecha (Harvest)

• Recolectando las mejores Muestras para Evaluar la Madurez de las Uvas (Collecting Berry Samples to Assess Grape Maturity)
• Evaluación de la Madurez de las Uvas para Vino con el objetivo de planificar la Cosecha (Fruit Maturity Evaluation of Wine Grapes for Harvest Planning)