It is the beginning of a New Year and I thought I would introduce myself. My name is Kelly and I live in the nice cool Ozark Mountains here in Northwest...
Question #1: Our second year Himrod vines were so vigorous that we formed cordons and very long laterals from new growth this year. It's my understanding that...
upon casual obsrvation, I noticed that the larger diameter prunings that have spent a year or so in the vineyard have tiny holes (about 1/16 in) bored into...
For those of us who have only a few vines (myself, I have 170 in my vineyard), I purchased the largest bags of instant potato flakes (from Costco) sprinkled...
There has been a lot of discussion about wood chips, stone, ect.... i'll bee putting my 1st vines in March (only 75), my question...what IS the ideal material...
Hi gang, I've got a lot of pine wood shavings (untreated), that I got from planing some stair treads. I was thinking it might make good mulch to keep the...
Ron's book includes a method of pushing cuttings through a plastic sheet into soil. One step is "Within one to four weeks the cuttings should root and begin...
Gents and Ladies, Tomorrow evening, December 1, I will draw names and assign givers and recipients for our Holiday Wine Swap. That means that today, or...
Someone needs a new server for email. This is getting old. You know who you are. Please contact me off list. Am in the middle of pruning, so now is a good time...
I am well into pruning here, so if anyone is interested in my muscat type test vines, contact me off list. Postage is the big expense, 'especially if you live...
I got tired of searching for files so I gathered all the info I have been collecting and turned it into a webpage. I hope it is useful to others but I can't...
We're into the soggy wet fall weather and the weaker vines are going to botrytis, but so far, I have great looking fruit on the Richard Walden "photos, on the...
What would be a good one to try to raise in central mississippi? i like the looks of the Red Flame Seedless Bunch Grape. What trouble would i have with this in...
While the species Amurensis has taken pride of place with grape breeders, my limited experience here in the Puget Sound region favors the V.Coignetiae. The...
Here is a picture of what I'm looking at. These are new vines planted this year. http://www.wacovineyard.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/dsc00847.jpg If...
I'm starting to prune the grape vines here. Have seen recently that even though we're mid way into November, some of my grapes, ie the Muscadines, are still...
I'm adding some varieties, and from all the literature says that American varieties are less prone to powdery mildew. I have the following European varieties...
Hello, everyone this is my first post to the forum, so excuse me if its a dumb question. I live in Southeast Texas. . . in an apartment, so I don't have a...
Good morning: This morning I will be getting 30 pounds of cranberries and would like to make wine from them....does anyone have a tried recipe? Also what...
Does anyone know what happened to Winepress at http://www.winepress.us/forums/ ? They seem to have shut down rather suddenly. Pat [Non-text portions of this...
Can anyone tell me how I should apply sulphur to my vines to prevent mildew? Should it be applied as a power - if so is there a special tool to do this? Or as...
Hi everyone, When I first tested my soil (before planting) it was acidic (5.3ph) so the results suggested 50 lbs per 1000 sq feet. I spread lime but I think I...
This is to announce the release of a two disk DVD video on pruning grapes. Now available at: http://www.bunchgrapes.com/dvd.html -Lon J. Rombough NEW grape...
I have had 2 34 degree nights in a row about a week ago followed by lows ranging from 39-50 and my canopy is still green. I have 2 33 nights in a row this...
i've added yeast three times to the must and racked twice. The red is bubbling furiously but the muscat just sits there. Have tried using a yeast called....
About four years ago, I crossed my female muscat hybrid (ES 5-17 X Orange Muscat), with a French wine muscat SV 14.287. Out of that cross, I have three vines....
Wondered if anyone has or is growing this Italian Wine grape. Have heard that it is very intense. My main interest is breeding French Hybrids and wild...
Hi gang, I was driving through the Sierra Foothills wine country and noticed that one of the bigger vineyards had white stripes of powder directly under the...
