I have 17, 15 year old Cab Franc head trained vines in my front yard. I'm going to experiment this year with suckering the vines to either one or two shoots per spur. I'll get the exact, plant by plant stats later this week, but there are 5 or 6 spurs on each plant, and then one or two shoots per spur and two clusters per shoot. Each plant will yield 10-24 clusters. My plan is to follow the growth and in the end, weigh the clusters, check brix and the pH. If I have the energy, I will ferment and make two separate batches of wine, to see if there is any discernible difference in the quality of the wine.
I would expect:
1. 1 shoots to be bigger (but not 2x)
2. 1 shoots to ripen sooner
3. 1 shoots to be lower pH
4. 1 shoots to make better wine
I would expect:
1. 1 shoots to be bigger (but not 2x)
2. 1 shoots to ripen sooner
3. 1 shoots to be lower pH
4. 1 shoots to make better wine
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