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Botrytis
Late season fungicide options (= materials with short PHI)
At Winchester, the night time relative humidity has been still very high, close to 100%, in nearly every nights in the past three weeks. In addition, we have been observing rapid development of thunderstorms, pretty much every day in the past few days. I know I sound like a brok…
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Mid-season grape diease management reminders
Most of us are about to finish the critical time when clusters are susceptible to infection by downy mildew, powdery mildew, and black rot. This critical time varies by varieties, but in general, 4 to 6 weeks and 3-4 weeks from bloom for V. vinifera and V. labrusca species,…
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Disease management considerations toward bunch closure
In a typical year, the fourth of July weekend is the time the critical period for cluster infection by downy mildew, powdery mildew, and black rot will end for many of us because it will be about 5-6 weeks after bloom. (Bloom this year was about 1-2 weeks ahead of typical years,…
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Rain rain...
It has been pretty wet week so far. At Winchester, we observed about 11 hours of wetness on the 26th with an average temperature of 64F, 50+ hours (and counting) from the 28th to today with an average temperature of 61F. It is certainly long and warm enough for Botrytis infectio…
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Seasonal disease management considerations toward the end of the season.
Most of us are about to finish critical time when clusters are susceptible to infection by downy mildew, powdery mildew, and black rot. This critical time varies by varieties, but in general, 4 to 6 weeks and 3-4 weeks from bloom for V. vinifera and V. labr…
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Late season disease management considerations
Some of our early cultivars such as Alandale is changing it color. It is just a matter of time to see other cultivar to enter phase of veraison. Hopefully, we will keep seeing dry weather with little bit of rain here and there.... There are several diseases to be considered at…
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Handout from VVA summer technical meeting
Most of us are about to see the end of critical time for berry infection by black rot, powdery mildew, and downy mildew. Please keep up as much as you can with protection of vines for next few weeks. I know many of us experienced some degree of flower and berry infection by ei…
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On going disease risk since 10/9/13...
It finally stopped raining, but we (Winchester area) are having an on-going wet event since 10/9/13. I counted >108 hours of wetness with an average temperature of 54F (ranging from 48F to 60F). It has been a long enough for Botrytis, and although the temperature was bit lo…
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