Bloom time fungicide application suggestions

Although our bud break was about two weeks behind of a typical year, the wet and hot May pushed our vines forward rather quickly.  Many people in northern VA are… Read more

More about options for current rainy situation

I have added more information to the yesterday’s post. Please check it out. Options against current rainy condition. Read more

Rain rain rain… What should we do?

As if almost a week of thunderstorms and rains was not enough, it looks like we are expecting even more rain in the coming week. Hopefully, you had a good… Read more

Bud break and rain…

Bud break for our younger (2-3 years old) Chardonnay happened around 4/20/2018, and for older Chardonnay, it was the last weekend, (4/27/2018). Looks like we are about 1-2 weeks behind… Read more

Early season disease (Phomopsis and Anthracnose) management tips

Our Chardonnay and some of the hybrid vines are in bud swell stage as of this week, and others are tagging along.  It looks like we will see bud break… Read more

Slides from NJ “Grape Expectations” meeting

Thank you for who attended NJ’s “Grape Expectations” meeting two weeks ago. (I think it is a very cool name for an Extension meeting.) Sorry for not able to post… Read more

More slides from the 2018 VVA meeting

Here are slides from my student’s presentations. The link will open a PDF file on Google Drive. Please note that many of data presented here are still preliminary and we… Read more

Slides from the 2018 VVA meeting

Thank you again for those of you attended one of my sessions. Here are links to my presentations. It will open PDF files on Google Drive. 1) Interactive grape disease… Read more

Change in Presidio label: grape is no longer listed.

The label of Presidio has been changed, and unfortunately, the grape was removed from the list of hosts. This means that we no longer able to purchase Presidio to control… Read more

Disease considerations at pruning time 2018

Here’s this year’s handout for pruning time disease considerations (this link opens Google Drive with this year’s recommendation for trunk disease management). As I noted in this handout, the first line… Read more
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