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Default grapevine leaf roll

Do you have dry soil??? Did the plants get plenty of water or did you
try and make the vines suffer?

Bob


RD wrote:
> I'm nearly certain that the 10 new Cabernet Sauvignon vines I planted
> this spring are infected with grapevine leafroll virus (GLV). By
> mid-summer the leaves started to exhibit the classic inter-veinal
> reddening and downard rolling of leaf margins. From what little I've
> read, it seems that the virus is typically propagated through cuttings
> and secondary vectors not spread from plant to plant by contact or
> seed.
>
> Anyone have experience with this? I purchased these vines from Double
> A vineyards in NY. Should I ask for replacement vines?
>
> RD