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Dear UGA Viticulture Blog Registrants: Please consider attending this wonderful annual event – this year’s is sure to be the best and most informative to date! Also – please forward to friends and colleagues you think might be interested in attending this event. Feel free to share on social media and industry blogs/web pages/newsletters to…
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I hope that everyone has their “wish list” of grapevine rootstocks and cultivars on order through nurseries at this point (in fact, 18 months in advance of vine delivery increases the chance of rootstock/scion preference, but ordering vines this far in advance may not always practical…). I often hear from industry members that Petit Manseng…
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To all viticulture blog subscribers that are vineyard and winery owners in Georgia: We will continue the Winegrowers of Georgia Internship Program for the 2018 field season. For those that have participated in the past, I would encourage you to consider participating again. For those that have not participated in the past, I would encourage…
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You may already be aware of this app, but I just found out about it today. The Vineyard Advisor App has been developed by Texas Tech, and it appears to largely be an IPM app. I don’t think it is that helpful in identification, so you have to largely know the organism already to find…
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Global Weather & Climate Center has a good short summary article about the impacts that weather and climate have on wine production. It is a compilation of information from Forbes, Journal of Wine Economics, the Denver Post, and Earth magazine. If you have things to add that you think were left out, I’d love to…
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For those who are unable to physically attend and participate in the grower’s roundtable meeting taking place tomorrow at 10 AM at Kaya Vineyards, we are going to try something new and last minute: You can virtually attend using zoom from a computer or phone. Here is how: Cain Hickey is inviting you to a…
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We have had only a handful of registrants for the grower roundtable meeting scheduled for next Wednesday, November 1 at Kaya Vineyard and Winery. This meeting will start at 10 AM. Details can be found in a previous post: https://site.extension.uga.edu/viticulture/2017/10/post-harvest-roundtable-meeting-scheduled-for-november-1-2017/ Maybe only a handful of people are interested in attending this meeting. However, I wanted…
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The National Weather Service office in Peachtree City has put out a preliminary frost/freeze warning for Monday morning. You can follow more information at https://www.weather.gov/ffc/. If you are in far northeastern Georgia, then you are actually in the Greenville-Spartanburg NWS office’s region and you can get information from them at https://www.weather.gov/gsp/. If you are farther south towards…
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Crown gall can sometimes be confused with either leaf roll virus or Pierce’s disease. In general, if a plant is a completely brilliant red, this is likely caused by crown gall or some trunk injury. Pierce’s disease and leaf roll viruses can also have reddened leaves or leaf margins, so this is a little confusing…
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In a blog post earlier this week I provided some links to sources of information on historical frost dates across the country. Today I want to provide you with some links to help you find current forecasts for frost. It looks like to me that we are likely to see our first scattered frost in…
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