. California fruits and how to grow them. Fruit culture. Lono- Pruninsf 250 California Fruits : and thickness of the canes, the larger the number of spurs and buds that should be left. A spur consists of the basal portion of a cane, and normally of two full internodes. This leaves two buds besides the base bud. The number of buds to leave on a spur de- pends on the strength or thickness of the cane from which the spur is made. A thin, or. Fig. 5. Shewing method of bending fruit canes to insure growth of shoots froin replacing spurs. weak, cane should be cut back to one bud or even to the base
. California fruits and how to grow them. Fruit culture. Lono- Pruninsf 250 California Fruits : and thickness of the canes, the larger the number of spurs and buds that should be left. A spur consists of the basal portion of a cane, and normally of two full internodes. This leaves two buds besides the base bud. The number of buds to leave on a spur de- pends on the strength or thickness of the cane from which the spur is made. A thin, or. Fig. 5. Shewing method of bending fruit canes to insure growth of shoots froin replacing spurs. weak, cane should be cut back to one bud or even to the base bud. A strong cane, on the other hand, should be left with three buds besides the base bud. The pruning of each vine requires judg- ment, and it is impossible to give an inflexible rule to follow. The ideal of a perfect vine should be kept in mind and each vine pruned as nearly in accordance with this ideal as circumstances permit. Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 rep- resent nearly perfect three-year-old vines cotisisting of two or three symmetrically placed spurs of two buds each near the top of the stem. Sometimes it is necessary to leave a spur lower down (see Fig. 3, fc). This spur will be removed the following year after it has produced two or three bunches of grapes. Sometimes a vine may be very vigorous but have only two canes properly placed for mak- ing spurs. In this case the spurs should be left longer—three buds and even in ex- treme cases four buds long. In stump pruning there is a difference of practice as to low heading according to lo- cality. In the interior regions the vine is now headed almost at the surface of the ground; in the coast regions there is usually a stump of one to two feet or more. As with trees so with vines, the practice is to prune to make lower heads than during the early years of California fruit growing. Long Pruning.—Some varieties grown for market and for raisin making do not thrive if pruned by the short-spur system. Notable among these are the S
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