- Vine awakening
- Bud break
- Vegetative growth
- Flowering
- Fruit set
- Petit pois
- Bunch closure
- Veraison and lignification
- Ripeness
- Leaf fall
- Dormancy
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Vine awakening
A new growth cycle begins.
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Bud break
The buds come out and begin to swell.
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Vegetative growth
Small green tips start to appear, made up of young shoots bearing leaves that spread and gradually get bigger. The future bunches are already visible at the base of the fruiting canes. They are called inflorescences.
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Flowering
is the blossoming of the flower at the end of spring. This period lasts 10 to 15 days. Each This is the inflorescence bud transforms into a grape berry
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Fruit set
The pollinated flowers turn into small green berries, that is fruit set.
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Petit pois
Under the weight of the grapes, the bunches begin to hang vertically.
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Bunch closure
Little by little, the berries – future grapes – swell up to a size big enough to touch each other: that is called bunch closure.
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Veraison and lignification
The grapes change colours and the fruiting canes also go from green to brown. This marks the beginning of veraison and grape ripening, as well as cold hardening, or lignification, for the fruiting canes that have now become vine shoots (to get ready for winter).
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Ripeness
The grapes reach ripeness. It’s time for harvesting!
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Leaf fall
After donning in their best golden finery, the leaves start to fall.
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Dormancy
The plant gets its fill of energy by transforming the chlorophyll absorbed through the vine leaves into starch, amino acids and mineral elements.