May 2017
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The 42nd American Society of Enology and Viticulture / Eastern Section (ASEV/ES) Conference will be held from July 10-12, 2017 in Charlottesville, VA. Please see details here: https://www.asev-es.org/ The full conference program should be posted in the coming weeks. This conference showcases very applied viticulture and enology research that has been conducted by research/extension…
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Since the first seasonal opportunity for vine tissue sampling comes at bloom, this message may be timely for vineyards that are northerly and/or at higher altitudes, but somewhat late for those located more southerly and/or at lower altitudes. Bloom-time petiole sampling is a good tool for those interested in learning more about the nutritional status of…
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The last post I wrote on May 17 was optimistic for a good fruit set given the wonderful weather we were experiencing last week. Key word here is “were”. The weather has been rather wet, cool, and rainy from this past weekend, and continuing through tomorrow. This has been particularly true throughout northern GA, but I’ve also received reports of very rainy…
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Downy mildew was identified on bunch grapes this week at a vineyard site in Lumpkin County. Cheng-Fang Hong, graduate student at UGA, confirmed the downy mildew infection. Grape producers are encouraged to scout for downy mildew and add DM-active materials to their spray programs. Below is an example of downy mildew on grape leaves:
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The annual Southern Winegrape Symposium presented by Vineyard and Winery Association of West Georgia will be held on Saturday, June 10 at the Carroll County Ag Center in Carrollton, GA. All current and aspiring individuals interested in learning more about winegrape growing and making wine are invited to attend. Keynote speaker, Dr. Cain Hickey, UGA…
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Now that we are getting close to fruit set (and maybe even seeing a bit in early varieties planted in southern / lower altitude vineyards), it is a good time to review fruit set, what can impact it, and what this means in an applied sense. Flowering (see left picture, below) and fruit set (see right…
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Dear subscribers, Apologies in advance. I made two new posts to my blog on two recent dates – May 10 and May 13. You were not notified because I failed to complete a form associated with the email alerts to subscribers. I have hopefully fixed that now. I send this message out to encourage you to…
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There will be a muscadine grower roundtable meeting at Still Pond Vineyard in Arlington, GA: https://stillpond.com/ This meeting is intended to discuss common and major concerns for muscadine industry stakeholders. This will help direct future extension and research pursuits in muscadine grapes. Rachel Itle, Cain Hickey and Patrick Conner from the UGA Horticulture Dept. will be in attendance. This…
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‘Morning all: I have been out and about in the foothills area of GA (Cleveland/Dahlonega), but also up in the Yadkin Valley AVA in NC. Depending on variety, bloom likely started mid- to late- this week in some warmer Yadkin Valley vineyards, and it will likely start sometime next week in the cooler Yadkin Valley…
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All, I sent an email out last week with a link to Dr. Mizuho Nita’s blog. Here it is again: https://grapepathology.blogspot.com/ Mizuho is a grape pathologist at Virginia Tech’s Alson H Smith, Jr. AREC in Winchester, VA. He provides a wealth of information on grape disease management in the eastern US. Though Mizuho’s information is…