Not sure., and of course PD is an issue will ask at the next meeting. My
library experiment is telling me most grapes like my soil. I got cutting from
NY, put them in pots and along the fence line., over 70 have set. Even the
Walmart Concords my grand daughter gave me are producing this year! I not
heard
of folks having problems with BdB. But will ask around. We have a wine guild
meeting this Saturday, near Mc Kenny in Collin county. The Aug will be at my
place in Decatur. Not sure where Italy Texas is? Your welcome to come to our
meetings.



In a message dated 7/15/2008 1:40:06 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
rebeason@... writes:




Jim,

Have you or any one else had sucess with Sangiovese here in
North/Central Texas? I like the idea of Sangiovese but have been
afraid of PD, I have about 50 plants of Chamboursin, about 3 yrs, and
its showing signs of PD, I also planted 25 Blanc du Bois (BdB), I
tried to keep them organic but the fungus last year was just to
intense and I got no production last year and very little this year, I
have given up on the organic sprays and think if I keep up with the
chemical fungal spray program, the BdB should do good next year.

Richard
Italy, Texas

In _texasgrapes@texasgrapes@tex_ (mailto:texasgrapes@yahoogroups.com) ,
jparker000@., jpa
>
> Interesting, it might be everyone migrated to the North Texas Wine
Guild
> group for those of us in North Texas. And the Home-Wine-Maker Group
has some
> traffic too.... I have 4 acres and plan in the works over the next
three years
> or so to put in about 370 vines. Right now looking at all the
logistics and
> doing a bunch of bare rooting from cutting, some grafting to wild
mustang vines
> on the place and general clean up of the land. I am in zone 7B but
my mico
> seems to keep it about 5-10 degrees cooler, so I am going to play
with about 4
> different varieties right now., most likely two reds and two
whites... reds
> I pretty settled on _Tempranillo_
(_http://en.wikipediahttp://en.http://en.w_
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempranillo) )
> and _Sangiovese_ (_http://en.wikipediahttp://en.http://en._
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangiovese) ) right now
> looking at these whites _Rkatsiteli_
(_http://en.wikipediahttp://en.http://en._
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rkatsiteli) ) and
> _Riesling_ (_http://en.wikipediahttp://en.http://e_
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesling) ) . It finding
what I want
> on 1102P root stock... but not sure 1102P is going to be the root
stock still
> researching that issue as my soil is PH balanced and is loam, not
clay like
> many have to deal with in North Texas.
>
> Well that my plan... will have to see how it comes out.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Jimmy (Jim) Parker
> Decatur, Wise County, Texas
>
> (c) 940.255.0912
>
>







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