Thank you again for participating in our meeting. Please find two materials from today’s meeting. 1) List of short PHI fungicides for late-season diseases (will open a pdf file) 2) Today’s presentation… Read more
Hurricane Delta seems to impact our regions, starting Saturday (10/10), and rain may last until Tuesday (10/13) or so. Depends on your location and cultivar selection, you may have some… Read more
Our Chardonnay clusters are getting larger and berries are starting to touch each other. It feels a bit early, but here are grape disease management reminders at berry touch/cluster closure… Read more
In a typical year, the fourth of July weekend is the time the critical period for cluster infection by downy mildew, powdery mildew, and black rot will end for many… Read more
It has been pretty wet week so far. At Winchester, we observed about 11 hours of wetness on the 26th with an average temperature of 64F, 50+ hours (and counting)… Read more
Dr. Wayne Wilcox at Cornell University wrote an article on sour rot management on “Finger Lakes Vineyard Notes“. (The link will open a pdf file) Please check it out. Results… Read more
Some of our early cultivars such as Alandale is changing it color. It is just a matter of time to see other cultivar to enter phase of veraison. Hopefully, we… Read more
As the harvest approaches (plus recent rain events in some part of VA), I am receiving several emails on sour rot. It is often confused, but not all late season… Read more
Finally, we are having relatively dry weeks! Most of us are about to finish critical time where clusters are susceptible to infection by downy mildew, powdery mildew, and black rot. … Read more
I thought I would wait until the rain stops to update the blog, but rains are keep coming and even when we do not receive precipitations, the air has been… Read more