4/7 & 4/8 2010

Lots going on the last couple of days.  First, the boring stuff.  Pruning progressed and I only have one row left in section a and the four in section c left.

As I posted on FB, pruning last night kinda sucked.  35 MPH winds, temps at 45 degrees.  Still got two rows done, though.

Also, I noticed that all of the cab already have dozens of little clusters, so should be able to count these to get and idea of crop load on every vine and adjust accordingly.

Clusters are already on the cab

Last night, we had a cold snap and a frost scare. I checked min. temps on my thermometers and got these readings:

Bottom: 36.7

Mid:    36.9

Top:    38.7

It was dark when I checked this morning, but I didn't feel any frost on leaves or on the ground.

However, when I came home and checked the plants tonight, I noticed all of the leaves look puckerd and wilty with gaps taken out.

 This has me worried.  Leaves didn't look like this 2 days ago.  What is it?

I also noticed that a number of vines have little black mosquito-like bugs resting on them.  Tried to take a picture tonight, but it was too dark :(

Something has happened within the last two days to make them unhappy. I checked the new pocket guide I got from OSU and the only thing that even looks close is phomopsis, though I don't really see the accompanying spots.  Based on what's happened in the last 48 hours, candidates include:

Borderline frost damage
Wind damage
fungus
bugs (maybe the ones I saw?)

I'll check again tomorrow to see what the status is and I plan to spray both fungicide and insecticide Saturday or maybe even as early as tomorrow night....