Assessment of growing media and fertigation regimes for growing wine grapes in greenhouse

温室葡萄生产在英国是一门艺术，在英国已经成功地实践了。 在美国，但在加拿大还没有。加拿大分销渠道（CDC）公司成立于1996年， 为安大略和海外市场生产当地高品质的白酒。他们正在使其活动多样化， 产品. CDC扩张的主要领域之一是葡萄酒生产和农业旅游。他们正计划 在安大略彼得伯勒的新工厂建立一个室内葡萄植物园。这个室内 葡萄园将是来自世界各地的几个葡萄品种的家园，用于葡萄酒生产， 农业旅游建立室内葡萄园的主要挑战是缺乏最佳环境的数据， 种植介质和灌溉施肥制度，使最佳的增长和高的葡萄树的长期生产力。 本研究的主要目的是（i）确定最佳的栽培基质，（ii）评估灌溉施肥制度 温室里的葡萄藤。研究结果将转达给CDC Inc。并将为他们提供 建立温室葡萄园的必要信息。该项目的成功将使 葡萄栽培者生产反季节葡萄或种植需要比室外更多热量的品种， 并提供农业旅游收入机会。主要研究人员和疾控中心的联合承诺 Inc.是成功完成和传播这一项目的关键组成部分。CDC Inc.已经被 表示有兴趣与特伦特大学的研究团队建立长期的研究关系， 继续研究室内葡萄栽培的其他未探索的方面，如模仿冬季 休眠

Grapes production in greenhouse setting is an art in the United Kingdom and is practiced successfully in the United States, but not yet in Canada. Canadian Distribution Channel (CDC) Inc. was founded in 1996 and produces local, high quality liquor for Ontario and overseas markets. They are diversifying their activities and products. One of the main areas of expansion for CDC is wine production and agritourism. They are planning to establish an indoor grape botanical garden at their new facility in Peterborough, Ontario. This indoor vineyard will be home to several grape varieties from all over the world with purpose of wine production and agritourism. The main challenge for establishing indoor vineyards is lack of data on optimum settings including growing media and fertigation regime that enable optimum growth and high long-term productivity of vines. The proposed research goals are to (i) determine the optimum growing media, and (ii) assess fertigation regime for grape vines in a greenhouse. The research findings will be relayed to CDC Inc. and will provide them with the necessary information to establish their greenhouse grape vineyard. The success of this project will allow viticulturists to produce grapes out of season or to grow varieties that require more heat than possible outdoors, and provides agritourism income opportunities. The combined commitment of the primary researcher and CDC Inc. is a key component to successful completion and dissemination of this project. CDC Inc. has been already showed interest to establish a long-term research relationship with research team at Trent University and continue the research on other unexplored aspects of indoor viticulture such as mimicking the winter dormancy.