Probably the biggest issue is what looks like Eutypa in a lot of the Merlot. Budbreak saw a sizable number of these vines only pushing shoots at the very ends, with all the intervening buds staying closed. Not much I can do about it this season, but I have a feeling I'll have to cut these back severely next pruning season. Here's a good example of one of the affected vines (which Darlene calls the "special ed" vines, lol).
Eutypa?
Next up we have an issue which seems to only affect 2 of my vines at this point, but unfortunately, one of those was one of the most robust I had up to this year. All of the foliage is stunted on these in a way that looks almost like herbicide damage. However, I had not sprayed any herbicide when symptoms showed, and these two vines are far apart in the vineyard, surrounded by other healthy vines. Scratching my head here:
This sad guy was one of my best vines last year :(
For comparison, the vines directly next to the one above (panning the camera right) look like this:
Sad Guy's neighbors seem just fine. Hmmm.
Last, we have a couple of vines that seem to have some kind of deficiency with yellowing away from the leaf vasculature. This is something I saw in a few vines last year, too, and in the same area. Not water stress, so maybe nutritional?
Some sort of nutritional deficiency?




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