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That’s what I’m thinking too.

Thanks for your input. I haven’t sprayed any antifungals. I’ve looked up phomopsis and tomorrow will have a closer inspection for some of the symptoms that are listed for it. We definitely had a cooler and wetter spring this year.

Anyone know what this might be? The leaves mid plant went yellow and eventually dried up but the top of the plant looks fine. Mostly I’m concerned about the necropathy of the shoot which has gone all blotchy.

Moles, voles and field mice. Armed to the teeth.

That made me laugh.

Thanks for everyone's input. Much appreciated.

Actually I'm quite sure now that it's boron toxicity. We r planted on glacial till that is devoid of boron. We used boron in planting, essentially guessing at how much to use. Now I know, less is more.

Could it be herbicide in the soil? We've been on this site for six years and never used any herbicide, never, none, naught.

This is one of the books

This is a bit of a stretch but u could check the videos on YouTube of Simonit&Sirch. The videos r in Italian but u may be able follow what he is doing visually. Their pruning method is based on maintaining sap flow and not making cuts that, as they dry out, interfere with the flow of the...

How about no poisons in your vineyard? Roundup will seep into ur water table, into your well, into those of your neighbours, into rivers and streams. Instead lay down a thick layer of mulch, straw or wood chips to smother weeds, but do it early before weeds become established after winter...

Very nice! Now a bit of sun would also be nice.

But I have bought vines from Cloudmountain. We bought a lot Pinot noir precoce vines. This year we are really struggling with Grape Leaf blister mite that seems to have come from the nursery. I'm not happy.

We got our Regent from a Canadian grapevine nursery grafted on SO4

Hey V8rx7guy - congrats on veraison! I'm also have Regent, about 50 vines. It's also our third leafing but we decided to leave only one cluster per plant because of issues in the first year. June was nasty and our fruit set was poor so even the single clusters are far behind. I'm near...

Too much nitrogen, hmmm. We are not fertilizing, only using yellow clover and black medic as nitrogen fixing cover crops, and a scoop of home-cured compost once a year. No Japanese beetles in these parts.

I've noticed some leaves on two different varieties showing some puckering. Is this familiar to anyone? I'm wondering whether it represents some nutrient deficiency.

My understanding is that you remove the less fruitful of double shoots otherwise the plant is wasting energy or unnecessarily distributing resources. I'll post a pic about double shoots from a pruning book when I get home from the office.

Here in BC the start of the growing season has been incredible...we must be 3 weeks to a month ahead already. As you can see in the picture grape clusters are already forming in significant numbers. This is the third year but we are treating it like the second due to damage in first year...