Ralphee
All the gear and no idea...
G'day all!
A little advice please?? Basically - how much trouble am i in here?
Looking up the books, this is black spot / black rot (I know the best way to avoid this is prevention, but its too late this season), and its throughout the whole vineyard.
I got caught working on a second project that took *way* too long and missed spraying twice (i was spraying fortnightly, so almost a month during the worst possible timing...). Now i have black rot throughout the vineyard - is there anything i can do?? I am moving to a spray every Monday to try and stop it from spreading further.
I was thinking of cutting out what i can and plucking leaves that are showing spots. Basically try and remove a lot of the infection to try and stop it, and spray spray spray (Captan, Switch, Phiocal, Phospot, Thiovit Jet and Bayfidan are what i have available)
And just looking at the underside of a couple of those leaves... do they look wooly to you?? Downy even?
The first season i took over this vineyard i lost one whole side and we were not sure what got into it, pretty sure it was this (that was the crop before last)
The growth of the plants is amazing and everything looks fantastic if you stand back a few feet.... but up close i think i am in some serious trouble!
Am i going to be able to salvage anything from this??
I have right royally stuffed up here - help!
A little advice please?? Basically - how much trouble am i in here?
Looking up the books, this is black spot / black rot (I know the best way to avoid this is prevention, but its too late this season), and its throughout the whole vineyard.
I got caught working on a second project that took *way* too long and missed spraying twice (i was spraying fortnightly, so almost a month during the worst possible timing...). Now i have black rot throughout the vineyard - is there anything i can do?? I am moving to a spray every Monday to try and stop it from spreading further.
I was thinking of cutting out what i can and plucking leaves that are showing spots. Basically try and remove a lot of the infection to try and stop it, and spray spray spray (Captan, Switch, Phiocal, Phospot, Thiovit Jet and Bayfidan are what i have available)
And just looking at the underside of a couple of those leaves... do they look wooly to you?? Downy even?
The first season i took over this vineyard i lost one whole side and we were not sure what got into it, pretty sure it was this (that was the crop before last)
The growth of the plants is amazing and everything looks fantastic if you stand back a few feet.... but up close i think i am in some serious trouble!
Am i going to be able to salvage anything from this??
I have right royally stuffed up here - help!