Università degli studi di Sassari, Facoltà di Agraria - Gallizzi
Abstract
A 3 year research has been conducted on grapevine « Vernaccia » variety
to evaluate the influence of some training systems on the flower failure
percentage.
Four training systems were compared: spur pruning, horizontal cordon,
bilatera1 Guyot, and Sylvoz. Observations were made each year on the
flower number per inflorescence, and on the flower failure percentage.
The resu1ts showed a great influence of the training system on the
flower failure percentage, while the number of flowers per inflorescence
was mainly related to the different seasons. The highest flower failure percentage
was found in spur pruned trees, the lowest in Sylvoz trained trees,
and the intermediate in horinzontal cordon and bilateral Guyot trained trees