Well I dropped about 1/3 of the clusters off the Chambourcin on Memorial Day. I will wait a couple of weeks and maybe drop another third. Not sure why the overbearing is more than expected this year. I took about 10 clusters off per vine this pass.
Anybody else see this situation.
Fern
Dropping Clusters - Sigh
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, May 29 2012 10:24 AM
Chambourcin dropping clusters overbearing
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Posted 29 May 2012 - 10:24 AM
Dear Lord, Forgive me and thankyou.
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Posted 29 May 2012 - 11:14 AM
Same here in S. AZ. Our mild spring and early rains seems to have helped with vigor this year. I left most of the crop on to slow the vigor a bit and finished the first pass on thinning shoots and dropping clusters this past weekend. I still have some large canes with 3 and 4 clusters each that I want to thin to two clusters each, Allowing the heavy crop to stay on the vine this long did help make the clusters a bit smaller and not as tight as last year. This is a good thing from a disease point of view.
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