Early season disease reminder: Phomopsis cane and leaf spot

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

Early spring disease consideration: Phomopsis cane and leaf spot

Our 7-yr old Chardonnay vines are in bud swell stage, and others are tagging along.  It looks like we will see bud break in a week or two. One of… Read more

Early spring rains can promote Phomopsis development

Our young Chardonnay vines are in bud swell stage, and others are tagging along.  It looks like we will see bud break in a week or two. One of diseases… Read more

Phomopsis and Downy mildew observed at Winchester AREC

We had a short shower event last evening; however, it was short and relative humidity did not stay high for a long time.  Thus, it was not a major disease… Read more

50% bud-break for our Chardonnay plus Phomopsis risk

Our 5-yr old Chardonnay is about 50% bud break stage as of today. At this time of the year, the number-one concern is Phomopsis cane and leaf spot. They produce… Read more

Notes on Phomopsis

 It seems that we will observe sunny days with 60-70F for next few days.  Hopefully, the night time temperature won’t drop too low.  Our Chardonnay vines are showing a little… Read more

Bud break!

We hit 90 F this afternoon.  This warm weather made things go little faster than we would hope.  About 50-60% of our Chardonnay and Merlot are in the stage of… Read more

Rain forcast on next few days.

(Today’s picture is our friend Phomopsis again!Left side has more spots probably because it is closer to the vinewhere the fungus survives and produce spores.Spores were rain splashed to the… Read more

Another frost advisory tomorrow morning (5/19/09)

Our low was low 40’s this morning. It suppose to be warmer tomorrow and I hope that we do not get any frost damage. We’ll see. We received several disease… Read more

Frost Advisory tomorrow morning.

As you may noticed, temperature has been declining since this morning. National weather service is issuing frost advisory from 4 to 9 am tomorrow (Monday) morning for Frederick county. Please… Read more
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