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["Hal Love" <lovehd@comcast.net>]

Sounds like phylloxera galls, although they are usually on the underside of the leaves. The leaf galls are usually not a problem on Catawba, which is only mildly susceptible.

 

Did they look like this? http://www.ppdl.purdue.edu/PPDL/images/grape_phyllox-leaf_abax.jpeg

 

Hal

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Shirley Murphy

To: nafex

Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 1:08 PM

Subject: [NAFEX] Grape vine attachments

My Catawba grape vine appears to be healthy but new leaves have 1/2cm long vertical soft budlike attachments on the upper surface.  Looking through a loupe they appear green with red streaks.   I cut one open to find that it is hollow inside.  No insect activity is apparent.  I have looked through some books including "The Grape Grower" and cannot find any such description.  I am located in SW Tennessee.  Does anyone have any  thoughts on what they might be and any suggestions of what if anything I should do?  If they are harmful I would like to control them with the least toxic means.  If they are beneficial I would like to encourage them. 

Shirley Murphy

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