by Deac Jones | Mar 28, 2017 | Biostimulants, News, Soil Biology
I’ve been traveling around California looking at the various stages of crops emerging from dormancy. There have been some areas that have experienced a considerable amount of rain and the soils remain very damp if not boggy. I hear many growers rejoicing about soil...
by Deac Jones | Mar 21, 2017 | News
I was talking to a very experienced vineyard manager last week who shared with me his experiment of converting a small number of acres to biodynamic. It was something that he decided to instigate, with the blessing of the vineyard owner, as he was curious about the...
by Deac Jones | Mar 14, 2017 | Grapes, Soil Biology
Last week I was walking vineyards above the Alexander Valley near Geyserville, where they’ve received an overabundance of rain this winter, with a customer. As much of the vineyard remained saturated, our conversation turned to what happens to nutrients that have been...
by Deac Jones | Mar 13, 2017 | Related Articles
Shoot Growth and Anthesis in Vitis by Charlotte Pratt and B.G. Coombe vitas-vea In the majority of shoots on a grapevine the number of internodes is fairly constant at anthesis. The number of visible internodes was higher in Vitis vinifera L. (16-19) then in V....
by Deac Jones | Mar 7, 2017 | Biostimulants
I attended the Bio Controls Conference in Reno, Nevada last week. I found much of the content presented at the conference to be extremely interesting, especially the latest information on agricultural biostimulants. Agricultural biostimulants include diverse...
