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  1. Rice_Guy

    Where to buy fungicides?

    I find Captan at the local garden center. (I don’t bother with Captan for black rot) I find Mancozeb at the animal feed store. (It is 60 days pre harvest so I only use it early season)
  2. Rice_Guy

    Can I use canned fruit?

    The US rules for food plants requires all ingredient statements to include everything in decreasing order! OK, in the US metal cans go along with a product which is retorted at 15psig for long enough to kill everything. A refrigerated or frozen plastic pouch would not be sterile and could have...
  3. Rice_Guy

    Eastern Redbud - I'm going for it!

    I wonder if you are tasting tannin? Bitter, (from an apple point of view), early August crab apple can have a bitter note, ripe September can have an astringent note, after frost November crab can be flavorless. Tannin chemistry; the molecules polymerize and transition from small to big...
  4. Rice_Guy

    Eastern Redbud - I'm going for it!

    Hot water will extract more. The microbiology lab person in me shudders to think of a high sugar solution sitting for a day. I would follow the type of process one uses for dandelion or lilac. ,,, basically pH 3.5 or 3.2 will prevent a lot of families of bacteria from growing. ,,, I know...
  5. Rice_Guy

    New winemakers in Alaska

    welcome to WMT Apple? I have done apple for several years and found it clears well with pectase. My first real crop was in ‘22. It had pH shifting up and some cloud that pectase doesn’t touch and off flavors. At this time it seems that if the pH goes over 3.2 apple is at risk for wild...
  6. Rice_Guy

    Eastern Redbud - I'm going for it!

    @Huba Huba , have you tasted the flowers? Taste is what you are going for. From a practical point of view the bud stage seems to last a week and makes it easy to collect flowers. It seems that flowers quickly fall once they open so you would need excellent timing.
  7. Rice_Guy

    Jumped in the Pool, let's see what transpires.

    Wisconsin is pre bud break, about a month ahead of normal this spring, so it is a good time to put some rooting hormone on some sticks. You are costal so they should survive winter. Growing degree days? Petite Pearl is about two weeks later than Marquette. You ought to be able to accomplish...
  8. Rice_Guy

    I goofed and put in the sorbate before I put in the yeast. What can I do to correct this problem?

    welcome to WMT You aren’t the first to do sorbate early as you can see from the answers.
  9. Rice_Guy

    Jumped in the Pool, let's see what transpires.

    . . . . . In the greenhouse with bottom heat I might have enough root to make it work over 10 weeks. My success on planting first year rooted cuttings in the ground has been about 25-35% at the next spring. Buying big enough to transplant nursery stock takes two years off the growing process...
  10. Rice_Guy

    Jumped in the Pool, let's see what transpires.

    in the ideal world you will have well developed roots when you plant. This could mean 1) root in a greenhouse now with a heat mat, 2) for year one have a drip irrigation system in a field like the nursery, 3) root then in compostable pots and then plant the whole pot at the target location, 4)...
  11. Rice_Guy

    Need Advice on Black Currant Wine

    pH of 3 is tolerated by yeast. I do a number of wines over 1% TA and compensate on the finished wine with sugar. If you are lucky 71B will lower the TA. I like chocolate in black currant. My feeling is that chocolate polyphenol notes compliment the polyphenols in currant. Cocoa powder is...
  12. Rice_Guy

    New to Wine making, completely overwhelmed from over researching and loving every minute of it.

    welcome to WMT Arlington Tx, ??? is there a wine making club In Dallas? Other, for example a store which will rent a press & destemer. StVinnies with stainless?? basics paired down: If you step back as with the Settlement Cookbook (circa 1905) folks made wine with a container and a balloon...
  13. Rice_Guy

    New Here

    Welcome to WMT @Wineart say Chuck ,,,. One place to practice tasting is at contests. You are invited to help pour wine (be a steward) at SunPrairie Vinters sunday or at state fair next month. Stewards get to listen to what the judges say and taste all wines at that table.
  14. Rice_Guy

    Nomacorc

    Info through the vinters club; * there seems to be low weight/ ex 4gm @ on some. The finished cork will stretch and wrinkle when inserted. Wrinkles cause 17% leakers. * The club source thinks the new factory was built in Mexico.
  15. Rice_Guy

    The 2024 crop year

    2024 is starting out as a weird year. We set a February record high temperature of 70 and again daily temperature records in first week of March. Our local winery started pruning grapes mid way through February since the daytime was averaging in the 50s, this was a month ahead of normal. I...
  16. Rice_Guy

    WineXpert How much water

    Unknown, my only goal is to come up with the design ABV so it is microbiologically stable.
  17. Rice_Guy

    Quick introduction

    Welcome to WMT I was first a gardener so started with fruit then expanded into northern hybrids. Enjoy the trip.
  18. Rice_Guy

    WineXpert How much water

    Welcome to WMT Bruce. There always is more than one way. Option C which I do is to intentionally keep the gravity in the primary higher as 1.100 / volume low as 5.5 gallon and then use the remaining 1/2 g water as a variable for topping off when racking after pressing.
  19. Rice_Guy

    Home Vineyard for Central Illinois

    * on year one you are trying to develop roots. The biggest need will be to have uniform soil moisture. April showers etc, ,, May showers make the root growth easier. That said actually watch the soil moisture, and air temperature , ,,, if it is hot/ dry in May like last year you will need to...
  20. Rice_Guy

    pH Reading and Swirling the Sample

    @BarrelMonkey stated the logic which I was taught. We are measuring the electrical potential with a small flow of saturated KCl out of a small pore. It is possible to have a concentration build up which we do not want, so mix while reading. This is more important if the sample is thick as...
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