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Saturday, July 30, 2011
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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closely inspected each main vine union this morning using the walking boards and found a fourth union on the 1493 where the leaf was still healthy but a fissure formed from past wind storms. all four have the same fissures on top that have collected water and rot spores that set up in a prime condition for development closest to the interior flesh of the vine in the cracks. all were cleaned of rot and the leaves were old and removed and trimmed close so no pooling water in stalks bases against the main. diluted bleach rub with napkin and captan applied and the will have a nice day of 90 degree waterless weather with lower humidity to heal. nothing on the 1209 or 1725 mains, but the three oldest main vine unions got a nice covering with captan as preventative maintenance. gave the grass weeds that popped above leaf canopy a hair cut today and got more airflow around the mains. this will help when i blast fungicide heavy down the mains with the fogger. i do not pull any weeds from here on out and havent done so for 2 weeks. i try to avoid disturbing any roots at all for the final second half push and feel all that interior work pulling weeds is sacrificing more with the damage from intertwined roots and compaction of soil. round up is not to my liking and i do not mind under canopy weeds. it is an economic of choices decision. for the small amount of nutrients i am losing to the weeds, i feel the benefits of them in a rain period like the past 2 weeks helps burden the load on the soil structure and soil food web community and help transpire some of that ground water more quickly. it is almost a symbiotic relationship as long as they do not get above the canopy and steal light. this is where the scissors and haircut come in. they are all mostly just rye grass or other grasses and even when poking above the canopy between weekly haircuts, they aint stealing much of any light at all. patch work is done for the day...going to the bar.
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