Disease risks 11-13 June

Winchester area received quite a bit of precipitation (1.4 inches) from a series of rain event starting from the 11th of June.  We had two wetness periods 14 hours with… Read more

Disease risks from yesterday

I guess it is typical of Winchester area.  I was monitoring radar regularly for the entire afternoon, watching lines of thunderstorms moving toward northeast over many part of VA; however,… Read more

Disease risks from yesterday’s rain

Thunderstorm and rain event started around 5PM on 29th resulted in about 10 hours of estimated leaf wetness event with an average temperature of 68F.  It was an infection event… Read more

Disease risks from the weekend

It did not rain much at my place (about 10 miles East of the station), so, it did not register to my mind, but Winchester area received a series of… Read more

Disease risks from today’s rain

Winchester area received rain from a thunderstorm last night around 7:30PM.  An estimated leaf wetness period is 14.5 hours with an average temperature of 63F.  It was a risk event… Read more

Disease risks from today’s rain

Winchester area received a series of thunderstorms from around 11PM last night.  It accounted for a 11 hours of estimated leaf wetness event with an average temperature of 60F.  It… Read more

Bloom and disease risks from today’s rain

We are about 60-70% bloom on our Chardonnay.  Merlot is still in trace bloom stage. Winchester area received a series of rains from around 3:00 AM this morning, and relative… Read more

More on Botrytis

I received comments from Anton on the previous post about Botrytis.  He is more concerned about Rovral (=Meteor), Vangard, and Scala than I indicated. I wasn’t very clear on the… Read more

Disease risks from today’s rain and a little bit about Botrytis

There are still a chance of an afternoon rain, but here are estimated disease risks from rains from yesterday to this morning.  We had about 16 hours of an estimated… Read more

Disease risks from yesterday’s rain

Winchester area received rains from 11AM yesterday.  Although rain was over by the evening, the relative humidity stayed high (>90%) until this morning.  Thus, an estimated leaf wetness period was… Read more
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