Disease risks from yesterday and today

We (Winchester area) received a few showers in the past 24 hours, and the longest wetness event was due to a shower passed  around 5 AM this morning.  It resulted… Read more

Disease risks from this weekend

It looks like we are going to have another wet week… The rain on the 29th was a very short one, but it was enough to make leaves wet for… Read more

Downy mildew risks

I just want to remind you about the risk of downy mildew remains high this week. Downy mildew prefer to produce spores under dark and humid conditions.  We experienced a… Read more

New REI for cane work for Luna Experience

Luna Experience had a 10-day REI for cane work activities (“cane tying, turning, or girdling”,  for other activities, REI is 12 hours); however, it has been changed to 5 days… Read more

Disease risks from 6/13

A storm went through our area and resulted in several wetness events.  The longest one was about 11 hours of wetness with an average temperature of 68F.  It was a… Read more

Disease risks from 6/6-6/8 rains

A series of rain event started around 9:30 AM on June 6th, and continued on until about 2AM on June 8th at Winchester.  Thus we had a wetness event for… Read more

Disease risks from yesterday’s rain event

Winchester area received a series of thunderstorms from 3:00 PM yesterday, and relative humidity remained high (>90%) until 9:00 AM this morning.  Thus we had a wetness event of 18… Read more

Bloom 2013

–> I just visited another vineyard down in the south where Norton vines were in full bloom, and when I came back, our Chardonnay vines were in trace-bloom.  As we… Read more

Disease risks from last few days

In Winchester area, rains from May 22-23 resulted in ~19 hours of wetness with an average temperature in lower 60’s. We had 5-6 hours of dry period, then another rains… Read more

Disease risk from May20th

We did not receive afternoon rains at Winchester yesterday. We were hoping for it because we are planing a new vineyard… However, we received a short rain around midnight yesterday… Read more
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