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I’ve had a very wet hot and humid summer. Lots of color on the vines now.

Looks very cool.is that a variable speed motor?

Black rot or anthracnose. Get some mancozeb and powdered sulfur , that might help save your crop. Next year follow a strict spray schedule. I think it will be very hard to grow organic in your area.

I use so2 at the minimum level per the ph after a few months of settling to make sure the MLF completes. I also use a lot of tannin as an antioxidant. I’ve recently started using a .35 micron filter and chitosan which is supposed to be antibacterial. Plus my wines are typically higher in acid...

I suppose you could immobilize the pulley and then reverse the polarity of the motor and turn the motor on and off until it breaks free. On my motor the pulley is screwd on and a little rusty so it’s never coming off.

in michigan an oz costs $50 for shake and $65 for buds, i have a friend who smokes and makes the drive every couple months. He's much better off smoking rather than being a heavy drinking alcoholic.

It’s been almost three weeks and no bottle fermentation so far.

Measure the shaft diameter and call morewinemaking and see if they are the same, I bet they are.

Looks like a car power steering pump pulley will work just fine.

That’s exactly what I want to do, but I can’t find a pulley that size that takes a flat belt. Where did you get the pulley?

I feel this is a time to celebrate. The grapes are more disease resistant now and the color is a sign of a good harvest. Bud break, flowering, veraison and harvest should all have a festival to celebrate the life cycle of the vine. It’s a bit humid today.

while the yeasts are fermenting the grapes they should find the sugar in the less crushed grapes. After all some wineries do whole cluster fermentations on purpose. maybe leave the grapes to ferment longer. there are some simple ways to press the grapes, use a bucket with some holes in it and...

i found a treadmill for free with a DC motor. 2.5 hp, speed is controlled by a slider, there are a couple circuit boards that must track speed and distance etc. Tomorrow i need to figure out how to get rid of everything but the transformer and the slider. The speed is 0-7080 rpms , it runs real...

https://dracaenawines.com/grapevine-nutrient-deficiencies/

Looks like a good product. I use tebuconazole which is the same class and Pristine looks even better, might have to switch.

I found a used crusher/destemmer on Craigslist and drove four hours west into Minnesota to pick it up. It hadn’t been cleaned after the previous owner used it last. They only used twice. It took about 90 minutes to clean it. It’s manual so I’m already thinking of how to make it easy to operate...

You should be ok. The sprays should control mildew and rot. One pic is a leaf miner. Not much you can do about that. One pic looks like a mineral issue.

nice, when do usually harvest? My Marquette is about a week from beginning veraison. I harvest mid September.

I decided to use a pump to move wine from carboy to carboy. I’ll still use my AIO vacuum pump for bottling tho. My new setup pumps a gallon a minute and doesn’t aerate my wine which I hope will leave me a more aromatic wine. I’ll run it thru a whole house filter to keep the diaphragm pump clean...

So if your starter smelled bad you would toss it and only keep good smelling starters, kind of like a sour dough starter for bread? I could deal with that. Is this some what like some third world beer?