Fear not! Potassium is your friend
Fear not! Potassium is your friend Holding off on K fertilization may be damaging your wine quality There’s a lot of headbutting between grape growers and winemakers. I get why. Lush green canopies with active shoot tips mid-July look pretty, but they don’t usually make good wine. On the other hand, leaner vines with drastically […]
And the time to irrigate is…now?
The time to irrigate is…now? As if frost season didn’t suck enough Happy budbreak! Actually “budburst”, as I’m told that is the more accurate term. Or perhaps you’re in the Southern hemisphere and are celebrating the end of harvest…good for you, mates. Archive the crap out of this post. For the rest of us though, […]
Breaking Down Plant Stress: there’s no substitute for boots on the ground…yet
Breaking Down Plant Stress There’s no substitute for boots on the ground…yet By Dr. Mark Greenspan and Loni Lyttle Here at AV, we make our irrigation recommendations based on three primary pieces of information: soil moisture dynamics, leaf water potential, and stomatal conductance. We also look at the vine (shoot length and elongation and foliar […]
