http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/ Advanced grape growing Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:53:44 GMT Chateau Stripmine http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22564 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22564 While attending the MGGA cold climate conference a few years ago, I heard that zig-zag growth pattern in the shoots was indicative of something. I can't Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:23:46 GMT Lon J. Rombough http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22563 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22563 There's a fair amount on J. beetles in The Grape Grower. -Lon Rombough NEW grape pruning video: http://www.bunchgrapes.com/dvd.html View a short, low Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:55:46 GMT George Gale http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22562 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22562 I'm staying in Central Illinois with a friend who's undergoing a strong, sudden attack by Japanese beetles. He's fighting back with sevin, but would like to Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:43:03 GMT deadnutvine http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22561 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22561 Southwest Texas. Had an extremely hot May, which ripened them almost two weeks earlier than last year. They came in at 22 brix and 3.6 pH, which i guess is a Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:37:37 GMT wpvineyards http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22560 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22560 have made the decision to rip out blanc du boise and replant to chardanele. need a reasonable source for on rooted vines.looking for any info on trellis type, Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:46:45 GMT Keith Pritchard http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22559 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22559 Mine are pretty much mostly on a Miami series of silt loam. It does have a clay subsoil. The pluton probably kind of holds water like an aquifer so your Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:30:12 GMT Jim Ward http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22558 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22558 I sorta thought you'd say that. :-) I'm quite aware of the theory, but in practice, at least in my vineyard, most everything does better on its own roots. Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:41:36 GMT pmdowns@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22557 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22557 There is quite a bit in Tennessee but I am not aware of any major plantings as far south as even where I am in North Alabama. Paul _____ From: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:26:33 GMT Keith Pritchard http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22556 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22556 Now, I'm the opposite on Chardonel. I'll never have it on it's own roots again. Same with Traminette. Too much vinifera in the parentage. I couldn't get Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:14:11 GMT Tommy ONeal http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22555 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22555 I know chardonel have some resistance to PD,, how much I dont know. I wonder if I could grow any here on the MS. coast? might be worth trying a few vines I Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:06:31 GMT Jim Ward http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22554 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22554 While my own climate in Durham, NC doesn't necessarily translate to No. Miss., I say give it a whirl, maybe 5 to 10 vines--they're cheap enough. I have PD Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:04:56 GMT George Gale http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22553 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22553 Where are you and your Leons?? I grow both the LM rouge and LM noir in Kansas City, where the harvest date is c. 20 August, year-in, year-out. Somehow, the Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:06:27 GMT deadnutvine http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22552 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22552 Yeah, I get those once in a while on my Leons, but they haven't harmed them a bit. And no, I will not explain why I grow LM in one of the hottest areas in the Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:59:15 GMT Keith Pritchard http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22551 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22551 I wouldn't plant Chardonel unless you consistantly get below +15ºF every winter. That is the cutoff point for pierce's disease. May get away with it in a dry Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:09:47 GMT Tommy ONeal http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22550 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/grapesrus/message/22550 Might depend on your Peirces disease pressure there. I am in SO. Mississippi and most probably cant grow it. Heck who knows I may have even tried it at one