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hey guys, is it possible to wash mancozeb off grapes? I just put some on and a week later we are into veraison so I won’t make the 63 day before harvest interval. This is just a test batch, not for commercial sale. Thanks.

Wanted to hear from any of you on the petite pearl wine and vine? Yields, numbers and most importantly Taste??

Hi all, I have been busy moving from connecticut to arizona. I am now growing vinifera, Petite syrah to be exact and was wondering what the spray schedule might be. hoping someone growing in the southwest could clue me in as to what disease pressure I should expect and what to do about it. Would...

Hey all, the yellow jackets are wrecking my grapes. They sting the berries at the top of the clusters and then the other flys eat the berries. Can I add some insecticide like sevin to the mix, I mean will it help??

Just wanted to see if anyone has any experience with trellis systems for Petite Pearl. I am currently on 4 cane kniffen on everything, but I am going to concentrate on the pearl, so wanted to know your thoughts. Less than 100 vines so labor is not a factor. Thanks!

Its been real dry here in the northeast so the Marquette is already at 22 brix. Everything else is in the teens. Taste is well balanced. Bring it in?

Despite spraying of captan, mancozeb and daconil, I am seeing black rot emerging on clusters under the densest areas of the canopy. Should I remove the infected berries/clusters or just let it go. I removed all the mummies last winter but its been real wet here this summer. Thanks.

Hi all I have a PS that has a pH of 3.7 and a TA of 1.0. It tastes sour from all the acid yet I cant add anything since the pH is so high. Advice?

Well, its that time again. The LaCrosse, Marquette, Frontenac, F.Gris and F.Blanc are all in the high teens on brix. Starting to see lots of bees on the F.Blanc and a few berries going south on the others. Do I pick or hold out for the low 20's? What say y'all. This week's weather looks real...

I am seeing black rot on my marquettes. I missed a couple of sprays so it is my fault. It has not affected the other varieties. Should I remove the affected clusters or just keep spraying?

Does it make any sense to treat bare root vines at planting with fungicide? I have planted about 100 vines and have some spray left.

I treated my wine with reduless and it helped. I did it again but went past the 72 hour mark before racking so it didn't help much (I assume). can I treat a third time??

My new vineyard is a rectangle roughly 100 by 150 feet square. The east/ west is the long dimension. My question is should the rows run east west or north south. The north south rows would be shorter and I can look down the rows from my house to look for varmints. What do y'all think?

First time with high acid eastern grapes. I am getting a pH of 3.4 and a T/A of 1.9 pct on a field blend of Marquette, Frontenac, Frontenac Blanc, etc. my Lodi stuff has been running 0.7 T/A. Should I adjust at all in the fermenter or wait until tasting.

I have a batch of Lodi Zin and a batch of petite Syrah from grapes and I am wondering if I should do MLF. Both have the H2S problem right now, but racking will solve that. I am nervous about leaving them naked without meta right now and they actually taste nicely balanced so I don't know what...

I bought an old wine press (like 1940's) and refinished it with food grade paint after blasting it with ground walnut shells. I then scrubbed it in soda ash before and misted with meta before my first pressing. Any chance that some old MLF made it through the process? I don't care because I am...

I have made 3 batches of Red this fall and two have the sulfur smell. The batch with RC 212 seems to be the worst and I remember that a kit I made with 212 last year had it as well and it disappeared after racking. This time, some Zin I made from Lodi Grapes has it with 212 as well as a batch of...

Well, those of you that have been follwing my progress know that I had taken a 25 year sabbatical from grape growing to raise my kids and work my job. Now that those two things are finishing up, I have been bit with the grape and wine bug again, mostly due to you guys at this site. I have made...

Hey I am going to try fermenting the whole crop from my test plot in one batch since it will only be a few gallons. Varieties an weights are 17 pounds Marquette, 10 pounds Frontenac Gris, 15 pounds Frontenac Blanc, 5 pounds Frontenac and 10 pounds LaCrosse. I was going to press the whites first...

Are you seeing rapid FermentationsAre this year? I am, my Petite Syrah went from a crush SG of 1.094 to 1.010 in four days at 68 degrees F. My juice buckets went from 1.094 to 1.002 in four days. One was on 212 yeast and the bucket on 71-B. The grapes are going to have speed burns on them when...