This was the final week of my internship. I finished creating the harvest tags and entering data for the replicated mycorrhizae trial. We did some more cluster thinning and shoot positioning in the research ...
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Our research vineyard needed quite a bit of work this week. We cluster thinned, weeded the rows with the baby hybrid vines, and irrigated for the first couple of times this season. I also ...
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This week we began cluster thinning our vines in the research vineyard. This is done to promote better quality fruit development as opposed to having a lot of fruit that is poorer quality. Grapevines ...
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On monday we went to a vineyard that is known to be infected with red blotch virus. We collected leaf samples from ten infected vines, and sent them out to a virologist for his ...
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We started off this week by checking our insect traps at all the vineyards we had put them up at two weeks ago. These traps are designed to catch grapevine pests that are not ...
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