When you run the pruning? As is to be made in respect of the vine and its fruits? Answer correctly to these questions can make all the difference to determine the success or failure of a vineyard.

The pruning of the production that is different from that of the breeding that you do in the first years after planting, is one of the processes most difficult and important for growers: it does not consist in a single operation, but a set of actions to perform better in the course of the year.

In this article we will see in that period to carry out the pruning of the vine, ending with a brief overview on the machines BFM specially designed to perform the pruning.

The different pruning is to perform in the course of the year,

the pruning of The production consists of different activities, all designed to ensure a better production of grapes, both in quantity and quality.

The pruning is more important is that cleaning you run in the period between the fall of the leaves and the vegetative, typically between the beginning of December and march; in areas subject to spring frosts, it is advisable to prune the vine just before the opening of the buds. The pruning affects the branches with buds formed and developed: each screw can count on different types of gems, some of the most productive (on the node) other less fertile (of controcchio and crown).

Theexperience of the grower it is essential to determine the number of buds to leave on each branch. In addition to this, in the pruning and cleaning must be taken into consideration:

• the level of fertility of buds: if it is low (less than 1 cluster per shoot) you prune the long leaving from 4 to 20 gems; if you mean (1 cluster per shoot), it is best to prune short, leaving a maximum of three gems; if it is high (average production of 2 clusters per shoot) you can take a pruning, short, long.
• the soil type: in the very fertile land and irrigation, you may perform a extensive pruning (leaving more than 20 gems) in the poorer soils and arid pruning to be forced to be poor, with less than 20 gems.

In the pruning of production are also numerous interventions of pruning during the summer, you talk about summer pruning.

• The effects consists in the remove the shoots (suckers) that are formed from the buds and latent; if left to develop, they will take away nourishment to the sprouts production.
• The scacchiatura provides for the elimination of the shoots in the system, in order to ensure greater ventilation of the crown, and lower risk of developing fungal diseases.
• The topping is the practice by removing the end portion of the vegetative apex; it is advised when, in the growth stage, the bud exceeds in height the structure of the vineyard.
• The peeling you are running only if the foliage is too dense and provides for the removal of the leaves and the female screw at the level of the bunches of grapes to ensure their proper ventilation and sunlight.

Entrusted to shearing machines BFM for pruning fast, accurate and secure

BFM helps you perform to the best of the delicate work of pruning with awide range of agricultural machinery , designed for pruning dry and green, suitable for different types of plantation and soil, even on a slope. These machines are widely adjustable according to the type of operation to perform, both on the tight spaces that larger areas, designed to ensure maximum yield in the vineyard and the minimum space to be closed.

The latest flagship signed BFM is the shearing electric CM-SNE, a machine that keeps all the characteristics of the device to the vineyards cut fast-CM-SN but becomes ECHO thanks to the power system, fully electric, both in the operation of the engines is in the jacks for handling. Lightweight, versatile and robust, it is equipped with stainless steel blades shaped to optimize the quality of the cut and mirror polished to decrease the deposit of the sap of the cut.

Conclusions

The knowledge of the grower are essential to determine the best time for pruning vines, together with the machines that are most suitable. In addition to the pruning and cleaning the winter, in fact, there are a long series of operations to perform, even in the summer to ensure a very good production, both in terms of quantity and quality.

BFM can help you to mechanise these delicate operations with a wide range of shearing machines and potatrici designed to meet the different needs of each vineyard.

Please contact our team for advice without obligation on the various models of agricultural machines produced by the company.

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