Grape Vines: Training and Pruning for Maximum Yield in Australia

Understanding How Grapes FruitThe single most important thing to know before pruning a grapevine is this: grapes produce fruit on shoots that grow from one-year-old wood, not on old, permanent wood. Every winter, last season's fruiting canes must be cut back hard, and new canes selected to carry next season's crop. Get this wrong — leave too much old wood, or fail to select good replacement canes — and yield and quality both suffer, even on an otherwise healthy, established vine.Choosing a T…