Viticulture – Canopy and Harvest Management; 3 credit hours, summer offering Provides skills necessary for maintaining the vineyard from the point of pre-bloom through harvest. Emphasizes crop monitoring techniques, pruning, vine manipulation, techniques to determining vine health, pesticide scheduling, handling and application as well as irrigation and fertility management of the vineyard. Additional field experience with harvest management including equipment, processing and handling.

Viticulture – Introduction, Site Selection, and Cold Protection; 3 credit hours, fall offering Provides information about the viticulture history, geographic location where grapes are grown and climatic conditions necessary for viticulture production. Also provides information about clone, variety and rootstock selection. Field oriented experience in vineyard layout, including site selection and preparation, as well as, irrigation and frost protection systems.

Viticulture – Establishment & Propagation; 3 credit hours, spring offering Designed to introduce students to morphological characteristics of the grape plant and the process of propagation during the dormant season through bud break. Field experience in the process of vineyard establishment, including trellising and training. Additional field experiences in advanced propagation techniques including vineyard nursery management. Provides students with the skills necessary to prune an established vineyard and emphasizes methods of crop adjustment for improvement of fruit quality.

For enrollment in the class contact:
Mary Ellen Brown / (405)-945-3358

For more information contact:

David Gerken
Associate Professor
Horticulture Program
OSU-Oklahoma City
John E. Kirkpatrick Horticulture Center
400 N. Portland Ave.
Oklahoma City, OK 73107
(405) 945-3352
gerkend@osuokc.edu