Four Critical Areas Necessary For Controlling Grape Vine Disease
Various kinds of grape vines disease can happen to your vines during their lifetime. There are measures you can take to ensure these types of disease are kept under control. The measures you need to take consist of sanitation, culture, fungicide sprays, and resistance. With a bit of effort in these areas you will turn out a larger quantity of great quality grapes. Let's look at each method closer to learn more about it.
1. Sanitation is basically removing and pruning the dead or diseased parts of your vine, grapes, or foliage. This prevents the disease from spreading to other parts of the plant.
2. Culture means using methods to maintain the health of the plant through correctly planting, pruning, fertilizing and using methods that keep stress to a minimum for your vines.
3. Fungicide sprays are useful if the right ones are used and applied at the right time. Covering the vine thoroughly is vital and the spray should be so liberally put on that it runs off. The fungicide will be labeled with the information you need to know such as what it is good for and how to apply it. The label will also list any safety instructions.
4. Resistance is choosing and planting cultivars or species that are genetically bred to resist certain diseases. This lowers the risk or totally eliminates the disease happening all together.
Some of the grape vines disease are:
Black Rot is brought on by Guignardia bidwellii, a fungus. Different parts of the country could have other top problems occurring. This fungus infects any of the green areas of the grapevines which are the tendrils, leaves, the new shoots, and the grapes as well. The infected grapes can become mummified. This can winter over and carry the disease into spring. Sanitation is a must if you hope to control this disease. All infected shoots, twigs, and mummified grapes should get removed and destroyed.
Powdery mildew is brought on by Uncinula necator, which is a type of fungus. All the vine's green tissues can be infected. This can come on at anytime during the growth season. The disease leaves will have an appearance that is whitish gray, powdery, dusty, or just white. This can distort or stunt the cluster stems, green shoots, or the petioles. The grapes can also get infected but only if their sugar content is under eight percent. If the young grapes get infected they can split open and rot or dry up. If the grapes are older when they get infected a pattern that is net-like often appears on the skin of the grape. Cultural practices and proper applications of fungicide spray can control this disease.
These are just two of the grape vines disease that can infect your vines. Check your local nursery for other diseases that are particular to your area. But remember that through sanitation, culture, fungicide sprays, and resistance you can prevail and control grape vines disease.
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