投稿の詳細: 摘房　摘粒　Bunch thinning & berry thinning

今日から巨峰の摘粒開始。
ようやくというところ。
といっても、肝心の作業は
お手伝いの方々に任せて
私は摘房。

房切り後1反分当たり2万房程度
できている葡萄の房を最大でも半分
にするのだが、私の場合ここで
3000程度にするので、1万7千房ほど
落とすことになる。
この時期いつも死屍累々という言葉
を思い出す。

摘房されて、地面に落ちた房が
そんな感じに見えるからなのだが
…。　どんな果物でもそうなのだが、
摘果され地面に帰る幼果の
使い道があればねえ。

I have all the way begun berry thinning
today. But I leave the operation to the
helpers and I have to finish bunch
thinning first of all.

After bunch forming in early June, there are
around 20,000 bunches per 0.1ha of standard
Kyoho vineyard. At bunch thinning the number
is reduced to at maximun 10,000. In my case,
I will reduce it to aroudn 3,000 per 0.1ha
which means I have to drop around 17,000
bunches. This operation always reminds me of
the word Sisi-ruirui which means piles
of dead bodies.

The removed bunches on the ground sometime
seem dead lives. Whenever I see the baby
fruit removal in fruit growing, I wonder
if there is any way to make use of such
removed baby fruit.