RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Lincoln Canopy for Grapes
JF American Journal of Enology and Viticulture
JO Am J Enol Vitic.
FD American Society for Enology and Viticulture
SP 176
OP 179
DO 10.5344/ajev.1983.34.3.176
VO 34
IS 3
A1 D. I. Jackson
A1 H. H. Nguyen
YR 1983
UL http://www.ajevonline.org/content/34/3/176.abstract
AB A system for growing grapes on a canopy 2.7 metres wide, 85 centimetres above the ground and in rows 4.8 metres apart is described. The Lincoln Canopy gave yields of Gewürztraminer three times those expected from cane-pruned vines on a single upright trellis, which is the most common New Zealand method. Grapes were successfully harvested by a machine originally designed for picking raspberries. The growing system is also readily pruned by mechanical means. Over three seasons lower sugar levels were recorded on the canopy than on the upright trellis.