PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Lloyd A. Lider
TI  - The Performance of Vigorous Nematode Resistant Rootstocks in Field Trials in the San Joaquin Valley
AID  - 10.5344/ajev.1959.10.3.147
DP  - 1959 Jan 01
TA  - American Journal of Enology and Viticulture
PG  - 147--151
VI  - 10
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.ajevonline.org/content/10/3/147.short
4100  - http://www.ajevonline.org/content/10/3/147.full
SO  - Am J Enol Vitic.1959 Jan 01; 10
AB  - Three experimental rootstock plantings in the San Joaquin Valley are described. Yield data and measurements of vigor are presented, as well as a description of cultural practices which are best suited for the proper management of the grafted vines.The use of the vigorous nematode-resistant rootstocks is sound vineyard practice in plantings on sandy, low-fertility, nematode-infested soils of the inferior valleys. Under commercial vineyard conditions, grafted vines require practices not commonly used in own-rooted plantings. Data show that a careful program of cultural practices utilizes the vigor of the grafted vines to produce large, profitable crops of fair quality. Careful pruning, fertilization, and irrigation will all help achieve this end.