My wife thinks I am lazy. I am not lazy; she just doesn’t understand how I think. I try to think in terms of the underlying energy flows and I just don’t like doing things without good reason. Nowadays we waste an enormous amount of energy across a lifetime doing routine things that chew up our time and suck the energy out of us. Unless I can see the benefits of something I generally like to keep my available energy at rest and ready to spring into action like a cat doing things I like.
That mind set doesn’t mean I am lazy. It means I direct my energies to where I want them to go. When I wanted to run marathons I got serious about training and ran them. It was a great experience at the time and demanded a huge time and effort commitment. I became super-fit and loved it. At the time it was a great return on my time and energy investment.
A few years later, when it came to pruning plants in general and grape vine pruning in particular, I really needed to understand what was going on that justified taking over the task from nature. Nature knows how to grow stuff so why interfere?
Think of it this way. Nature provides the framework for growth but has designed the systems so that we can intervene and enhance performance. We can enhance performance if we understand how and why the energy flow moves within the plant. There are certain underlying principles, foliage grows toward the sunlight, roots away, buds that receive more sunlight will respond because the energy flows are stronger than in buds where the light has been cut off. Sun loving plants that get good light, are in soil they like, and receive nutrients in useable form will generally grow more strongly and be more disease and pest resistant than their deprived counterparts.
The human body is a perfect metaphor – we are designed for growth but to grow we need to show the gym, the library, or both. Athletes, artists, musicians, writers and people in all fields of endeavour develop and grow because they understand, practice and nurture the principles that contribute to growth.
In any of these occupations, the techniques involved in a particular field can become very complex but, as always, there are a range of techniques available for beginners right to through to those at the top of their fields.
Likewise, properly understood, practiced and applied there are certain grape vine pruning principles that enhance the performance of the grape vine and contribute to getting great yields from your vines. We are not talking about DNA restructuring or genetic modification, all we are talking about is efficient grape vine pruning techniques.
Broadly speaking, the two key growth energies of a grape vine come back to either its structural or its fruiting energies and, never the twain shall meet, because the fruiting takes place only on first year canes. The older canes, having provided the fruit, are either removed or they are left to provide the framework of the vine.
Why bother? Because, with careful grape vine pruning you can manage and direct the growth of the vine to create the structure you want and, within that structural you can optimise fruiting. This gives you great fruiting and the shape you want. If you want more invormation please visit my site My wife thinks I am lazy. I am not lazy; she just doesn’t understand how I think. I try to think in terms of the underlying energy flows and I just don’t like doing things without good reason. Nowadays we waste an enormous amount of energy across a lifetime doing routine things that chew up our time and suck the energy out of us. Unless I can see the benefits of something I generally like to keep my available energy at rest and ready to spring into action like a cat doing things I like.
That mind set doesn’t mean I am lazy. It means I direct my energies to where I want them to go. When I wanted to run marathons I got serious about training and ran them. It was a great experience at the time and demanded a huge time and effort commitment. I became super-fit and loved it. At the time it was a great return on my time and energy investment.
A few years later, when it came to pruning plants in general and grape vine pruning in particular, I really needed to understand what was going on that justified taking over the task from nature. Nature knows how to grow stuff so why interfere?
Think of it this way. Nature provides the framework for growth but has designed the systems so that we can intervene and enhance performance. We can enhance performance if we understand how and why the energy flow moves within the plant. There are certain underlying principles, foliage grows toward the sunlight, roots away, buds that receive more sunlight will respond because the energy flows are stronger than in buds where the light has been cut off. Sun loving plants that get good light, are in soil they like, and receive nutrients in useable form will generally grow more strongly and be more disease and pest resistant than their deprived counterparts.
The human body is a perfect metaphor – we are designed for growth but to grow we need to show the gym, the library, or both. Athletes, artists, musicians, writers and people in all fields of endeavour develop and grow because they understand, practice and nurture the principles that contribute to growth.
In any of these occupations, the techniques involved in a particular field can become very complex but, as always, there are a range of techniques available for beginners right to through to those at the top of their fields.
Likewise, properly understood, practiced and applied there are certain grape vine pruning principles that enhance the performance of the grape vine and contribute to getting great yields from your vines. We are not talking about DNA restructuring or genetic modification, all we are talking about is efficient grape vine pruning techniques.
Broadly speaking, the two key growth energies of a grape vine come back to either its structural or its fruiting energies and, never the twain shall meet, because the fruiting takes place only on first year canes. The older canes, having provided the fruit, are either removed or they are left to provide the framework of the vine. for more information visit Patio Projects
Why bother? Because, with careful grape vine pruning you can manage and direct the growth of the vine to create the structure you want and, within that structural you can optimise fruiting. This gives you great fruiting and the shape you want. My wife thinks I am lazy. I am not lazy; she just doesn’t understand how I think. I try to think in terms of the underlying energy flows and I just don’t like doing things without good reason. Nowadays we waste an enormous amount of energy across a lifetime doing routine things that chew up our time and suck the energy out of us. Unless I can see the benefits of something I generally like to keep my available energy at rest and ready to spring into action like a cat doing things I like.
That mind set doesn’t mean I am lazy. It means I direct my energies to where I want them to go. When I wanted to run marathons I got serious about training and ran them. It was a great experience at the time and demanded a huge time and effort commitment. I became super-fit and loved it. At the time it was a great return on my time and energy investment.
A few years later, when it came to pruning plants in general and grape vine pruning in particular, I really needed to understand what was going on that justified taking over the task from nature. Nature knows how to grow stuff so why interfere?
Think of it this way. Nature provides the framework for growth but has designed the systems so that we can intervene and enhance performance. We can enhance performance if we understand how and why the energy flow moves within the plant. There are certain underlying principles, foliage grows toward the sunlight, roots away, buds that receive more sunlight will respond because the energy flows are stronger than in buds where the light has been cut off. Sun loving plants that get good light, are in soil they like, and receive nutrients in useable form will generally grow more strongly and be more disease and pest resistant than their deprived counterparts.
The human body is a perfect metaphor – we are designed for growth but to grow we need to show the gym, the library, or both. Athletes, artists, musicians, writers and people in all fields of endeavour develop and grow because they understand, practice and nurture the principles that contribute to growth.
In any of these occupations, the techniques involved in a particular field can become very complex but, as always, there are a range of techniques available for beginners right to through to those at the top of their fields.
Likewise, properly understood, practiced and applied there are certain grape vine pruning principles that enhance the performance of the grape vine and contribute to getting great yields from your vines. We are not talking about DNA restructuring or genetic modification, all we are talking about is efficient grape vine pruning techniques.
Broadly speaking, the two key growth energies of a grape vine come back to either its structural or its fruiting energies and, never the twain shall meet, because the fruiting takes place only on first year canes. The older canes, having provided the fruit, are either removed or they are left to provide the framework of the vine.
Why bother? Because, with careful grape vine pruning you can manage and direct the growth of the vine to create the structure you want and, within that structural you can optimise fruiting. This gives you great fruiting and the shape you want. hopefully, this is the first in a series of related articles. If you would like more information please visit my site Patio Projects
