We had two wetness event due to lines of rain passed by yesterday (7/17/09). The first one started around 11:30 am, and wetness lasted until 3:30 pm or so (4… Read more
There is a vineyard meeting tomorrow at Pollak Vineyards from 11 am. I won’t be there, but here is my handout for tomorrow, which talks about risks of diseases at… Read more
We haven’t experienced major disease event for a while. On 7/9-7/10/09, we had two consecutive nights that were favorable for downy mildew sporulation, and on 7/11/09, there was a short… Read more
I hope all of you had a nice 4th of July weekend. I’m glad that we did not see the forecasted thunderstorm events. Most of vines should be approaching the… Read more
The thunderstorm on 7/01/09 lasted a little over an hour (0.73 inches); however, RH remained high for about 9 hours with an average temperature of 65F. Thus the event was… Read more
The radar is showing thunderstorms for tonight (now I heard the thunder…); however, in the past few days, there is only one night when the condition was favorable for downy… Read more
We had a short thunderstorm event on Friday (26th), but it lasted about 3.5 hours with an average temperature of 73F and a total precipitation of 0.33 inches. It was… Read more
Thank you very much for attending the vineyard meeting at Doukenie last night. If you could not make it, you can download my note from here. As I mentioned several… Read more
We found infestation on new vines by these bugs. For more information, please refer to these extension factsheets from Virginia Tech and Cornell University. Damage on leaves (adults feed on… Read more
This may be the first time in a long time that I don’t mention about disease risk 😉 We had two nights with relatively low RH which makes less conducive… Read more