HARVEST DIARY 2022 | SAN POLO 19 18 HARVEST DIARY 2022 | SAN POLO In June the flowering season proceeded quickly, continuing to enchant with its beautiful colors, thanks to the light of the summer that lights up the leaves with bright green; the favorable weather and the rain in early summer have in fact given new impetus to the vegetation. It is in this phase that the conveyance to the second pair of wires is carried out, i.e. the vine shoots are positioned inside the pairs of containment wires so that they are not damaged or even broken by the wind and can continue to grow in orderly and equidistant within the row. This operation is essential to continue Positioning of the branches the season in the best possible way: the wellpositioned shoots guarantee a well-arranged vegetative wall, which benefits from a better microclimate and will be easier to manage during the subsequent defoliation and thinning operations. After a few days, if everything continues without unexpected events, the next phenological phase will arrive, the end of flowering, in which we will be able to begin to glimpse the first attached berries which will then go on to form the future bunches. It will then be the turn of the canning of the branches, an operation through which the tops of the plant, which have become too long, are gently twisted along the wires, thus avoiding cutting them. With the end of June, we are at the last countryside activity operation useful for the perfect ripening of the bunches, the peeling. On the wall facing east or north, depending on the orientation of the rows, the basal leaves are removed and placed under the bunch, to ensure that in that point the vine gets as little sun as possible and only in the coolest hours of the day. This type of very delicate activity has the objective of cleaning the bunches of floral residues, exposing them to the air but not to the light, and is essential for positively influencing the microclimate in the area where the fruit is positioned. In fact, thanks to the defoliation, ventilation and low humidity conditions are created which help the health of the plant, maintaining shade and coolness. On a phenological level, despite the climate of the last few days having brought about a rise in temperatures with no rain, our vines have grown well and luxuriantly, despite being slightly ahead of a canonical season. Leaf stripping was therefore a further contribution to the correct development of the bunches. Leaf removal
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