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Old 28-08-2011, 12:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Dave Hill View Post

We used to grow them 18 ft appart, the new growth was trained to the
left one year and to the right next year, this made pruning much
easier as we were not trying to sort out old growth from the new.
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An alternative is to train the fruiting stems to left and right, and to gather the new stems in a bundle going straight up. Then at pruning time you cut out all the old stems, loosen the bundle of new stems and train them to left and right in the places vacated by the old stems.
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