Growing the vine is a major investment for the manager of the vineyard. Because technically, the production of wine begins at the moment of planting the vine. If something goes wrong at the source, the consequences could be dire.
Wine grapes grow on the vine and almost everyone knows it. But how many people know that the planting of the vine didn't start with seeds planted in the nursery/garden. In fact, the genes of the vine are not given to the plants by seeds, and the vines are not grown from seeds but are grown by cuttings.
To breed the best vines, coordination, all parties need to factor (Rootstock) and grafting the scion varieties is one of the most critical of two parts, which determine the growth of the vine grape varieties (is merlot and cabernet sauvignon, etc.). There is also a cold knowledge about grape planting: in fact, most of the growth of wine grapes are not on their own roots, but to put the branch into the roots of the root.
Eurasian wine in bordeaux and even for the most part, the most common way is: choice has built the root and very healthy American Vines (American Vines) as root stock, then the vitis vinifera and grafted grapes on the root of the americas. This method is mainly to avoid the attack of Phylloxera.
Long before the middle of the 19th century, the vine planting, don't need the stock until 1863 when European explosion phylloxera, destroyed a large vineyard. The aphids live on the roots of the vine and are eaten by the roots of the vine, and the vitality is greatly reduced and even death. The disaster led to a slump in the wine industry in France and across the continent. Fortunately, it was later discovered that the root of the American grape was resistant to the phyloblastoma aphids, which effectively inhibits the destruction of the aphids. That is why European governments now have rules that require growers to marry vines on a resistant root stock.
The vine is the only way to qualify for the bordeaux vineyard!
Preparation steps for the planting of vines
Step 1: prepare the wood
Cut a small stem from a healthy vine and cut it into the same length. These stems are also known as Scions.
Step 2: graft
Grafted the branches of the scion to the root stock. Bordeaux is the most main use is Omega grafting, the two pieces of wood with similar puzzles Ω type for Mosaic.
Step 3: wax
The wax is coated in two pieces of wood to protect the graft.
Step 4: layer
When the two pieces of wood were glued together, the SAP began to flow from one side to the other -- essentially, the two parts had merged.
After the work was done, a new vine was born. But then the farmer's work is just beginning -- you must carefully move it to a flower pot or a nursery. Before planting vines in the vineyard, we need at least a year to grow.
Before the sale or planting of vines, a company will be examined to make sure the new plants do not carry any virus or bacteria. Any grape vine can cause damage to the entire vineyard.
Although the reason is to prevent the vines grafting nodule aphid and other plant diseases and insect pests in the soil, but now, the researchers also can choose even cross breed different category of American stock for grafting, to control the vine growth of other conditions, such as dry and wet degree, grape growing, or grapes mature
