Section 1.3: Introduction – Field Grafting versus Replanting

Field grafting has many benefits over replanting: Valuable existing vineyard infrastructure — trellising, irrigation, vine trunks — can be utilised. Fruiting canes can be rapidly established and fill cordon wire. Vines have a faster return to full yield production — 1 year for grafted vines compared with 3-5 years for replanted vines. Top-working existing tall trunks results in faster cordon establishment (due to the shoots from the scion being closer to the wire), avoids the added expense of vine guards and weed management associated with new plantings, and involves less … Continued