personality in monotony

There are many viticultural regimes in relation to trimming your fruit before harvest.  The main objective is to direct power from leaf to bunches of grapes; not too much, never too little.  It's a photosynthetic balancing act.  A vine wants to produce a boat load of foliage to grow and prosper.  If man were not around to snip, twist, aim, etc., the vine would not likely produce ripe enough grapes for quality wine.  Each vine, moreover, each shoot is an entity in its own right, having an ostentatious personality, producing a boat load of leaves or the quiet, shy sibling, conversely producing one bunch or perhaps, nothing. 

The first week dropping fruit was pure monotony.  In the U.S., most wineries save this joy for immigrant workers getting underpaid clipping under the hot sun.   Many harvest hands arrive and don't realize while producing a slight 1,000 cases of wine, we have 10,000 personalities to look after...  10,000, that's a lot of frickin' vines, yet to strike a relationship between each vine takes care and good nature.  As my grandmother once said, "there are never any problems when you're in the garden."