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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Grape Question
  • Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 15:06:05 -0500



-----Original Message-----
From: Aozotorp AT aol.com <Aozotorp AT aol.com>


>One of My New Grape Plants seems to have a disease! The new growth is not
>developing into Full leaves; but is stunted and dark green and round! The
>growing seems to have stopped. Should I pluck this plant out before it
>spreads! Must be a bacterial disease?

Grapes are prone to many disease problems, though few are bacterial. If
it is a new plant that has stopped growing, it's probably a root system
problem, maybe as simple as lack of water. It may have had a "sniff" of
2,4-D being used within a couple of miles, which can also stop growth and
result in rounder leaves. Why one plant and not it's neighbors? Randomness
happens. I'd try watering it more often and giving it a gentle dose of
fertilizer. That may be just the encouragement it needs.

Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center




  • Grape Question, Aozotorp, 07/05/2001
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • Re: Grape Question, Bill Shoemaker, 07/06/2001

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