Which system uses a permanent cordon extending horizontally from the trunk, instead of a two-year-old cane?

Which system uses a permanent cordon extending horizontally from the trunk, instead of a two-year-old cane?

• A. Head training
• B. Gobelet
• C. Guyot
• D. Cordon de Royat

Answer: (D)

Vine training systems and how fruiting wood is produced. Cordon training uses a permanent horizontal cordon that runs from the trunk along the trellis, with fruiting wood pruned along that fixed arm year after year. This keeps a steady, established structure and avoids carrying a new cane each season. In contrast, cane-pruned systems rely on selecting and renewing a cane (often around two years old) to bear fruit, which is not the case with a permanent cordon. Gobelet and head training are bush-style, without a fixed horizontal cordon along wires, so they don’t establish that long, unbroken arm from the trunk. Guyot uses canes that are renewed and pruned to produce the next season’s fruiting wood, rather than maintaining a permanent cordon. So the system described—a permanent horizontal cordon extending from the trunk—is Cordon de Royat.

Vine training systems and how fruiting wood is produced. Cordon training uses a permanent horizontal cordon that runs from the trunk along the trellis, with fruiting wood pruned along that fixed arm year after year. This keeps a steady, established structure and avoids carrying a new cane each season. In contrast, cane-pruned systems rely on selecting and renewing a cane (often around two years old) to bear fruit, which is not the case with a permanent cordon.

Gobelet and head training are bush-style, without a fixed horizontal cordon along wires, so they don’t establish that long, unbroken arm from the trunk. Guyot uses canes that are renewed and pruned to produce the next season’s fruiting wood, rather than maintaining a permanent cordon.

So the system described—a permanent horizontal cordon extending from the trunk—is Cordon de Royat.