As we enter the winter season, many growers are once again thinking about the risk of cold injury to grapevines. With increasingly unpredictable weather patterns, […]

When should I sprinkle, and when should I flood? This will depend if you have harvested and removed the irrigation pipes or not. If you […]

As spring progress, we have observed a significant loss of cold hardiness in grape buds mostly in the last two weeks. Next week will bring […]

During the last two weeks we have experienced several days with minimum temperatures above freezing (32 °F). These overall warmer temperatures have resulted in deacclimation […]

Bud cold hardiness refers to the ability of buds to survive cold temperatures during the dormant season. To monitor changes in bud cold hardiness, we […]

Bud cold hardiness refers to the ability of buds to survive cold temperatures during the dormant season. When temperatures drop below the critical value that […]

Vine Establishment There is more than one way to train a grapevine, but cold climate grape cultivars are usually characterized by having a downward growing […]