As with many other places in the VA, we were suffering from frost damages. We experienced several near freezing events this year, and most notably, a few hours of 25F on Thursday morning. Our younger Chardonnay planting (4th leaf) had a bud break around 4/1, and being suffered more from it. I estimated about 80-90% of emerged shoots are now gone. Our older Chardonnay (8th leaf) is about a week behind, and my visual estimate as of yesterday was about 25% loss. Some buds/shoots look like they are surviving, but I am not sure how it will go after tomorrow morning…
There is a very nice blog post about spring frost from Dr. Michela Centinari at PSU. If you are interested in, please follow this link.
The other items I noticed in our vineyards is damage from climbing cut worm.
For us, it always starts from the Eastern side of our vineyard which is facing a small patch of wood. If it is a warm weather, I would spray for it, but I think I will wait until the temperature gets warmer near the end of next week. Here’s an information page on climbing cutworms from Doug.
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