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STAMFORD CT

I have seen at the patches of a couple "Master" growers...that they have removed the dirt from on top of their vines near the stump...they flushed it off with the water hose leaving the tops of the vines and the top tap root to air dry...probably 6 to 8 ft up the main and a little down the first few laterals....Is it time yet? Do you spray with a dose of fungicide?....a little captan to keep fungal problems from starting? Please Advise...Pumpkinson

8/23/2006 7:48:07 PM

Buren Ameland,West Frisian Islands, Netherlands

The part near the stump I leave free always, now there is a bit rotting there and clean it ever day or two with dry grass, all is in controle now.

8/24/2006 6:13:40 AM

Mocksville, NC

In my patch i have buried 3x all 3 times they rotted before there time, no more for me sidevines leaf nodes yes i cover, the main no, that my patch lot of rain , and humidity here.

8/24/2006 10:41:57 PM

Ohio

I had to uncover my secondaries , alot of them started turning brown and I lost one plant because of it and another plant I lost the stump and mostly all the main vine,its now only growing on secondaries.
I used straight compost this year and cooked my vines because the compost wasnt done cooking, looked done, but it wasnt. Next year Im covering with straight dirt from my patch. Never again will I cover with straight compost. Larry Checkon saved my plants this year by telling me not to cover my vines with compost, so I went out and uncoverd every vine that had compost on them and just in the nick of time to. Im lucky I only lost one plant.

8/24/2006 11:23:22 PM

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With such a wet early summer this was NOT a good year for full vine burying (Fusarium). Rather I feel that just burying nodes is safer. Roots don't grow between nodes but Fusarium does. The days of burying vines to prevent borers is all but gone since we now have effective insecticide programs to prevent them.

8/24/2006 11:51:34 PM

Long Island,New York

steve...come up with a chemical to hold the vines down in the wind and we'll all be set !

8/25/2006 5:25:35 PM