4 ways to help our vineyard during the new growing season
By Nikos Kipriotakis, Agronomist AUA, Food Science and Technology Dept. – AgriSC partner
In our country, the grape, as a product of the vine, dominates strongly in summer, in taste and aroma. We can taste it both as a fruit and as a wine or tsikoudia (raki).
There are many widely available wine and table varieties. Our country is the 3rd largest exporter in Europe after Italy and Spain (source: CBI Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
But are vineyards cultivated properly?
Today, vine plants get vaccinated.
What does this mean?
Two different plants join together, one giving the root and the other the above-ground part of the plant. The point of union is decisive for developing the new plant. This is why the root vessels must join perfectly with the graft vessels.
So, a strong and healthy root with healthy, clean, large, continuous root-to-leaf vessels is critical to a vigorous stump start.
So, at the beginning of the growing season, with irrigation, you need:
- Help the root with rooting agents and formulations. They will help produce new, numerous, healthy root hairs, or apply quality algae for the same purpose.
- Add, in irrigation, amino acids and mineral nutrition through fertilizers.
- Apply with irrigation liquid leonhardite, with a more acidic pH, to distressed soils and high pH, alkaline soils.
Use, as spring progresses, new technology formulations. They will activate cambium in the filter bundles and produce new wood and filter vessels.
This results in new vessels that are more numerous and cleaner, giving quantity, quality, and size of fruit and rachis.
Did you know that...
In summer, “smart” formulations can control plant water potential during irrigation, preventing severe water stress.
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