Forgot we couldn't use attachments. Check out the picture of the grape
leaf disease at http://www.knology.net/~erwincm/Disease.jpg



On Thu, 24 May 2007 00:31:18 -0500, Charles E >
wrote:

>May 10, 4:00pm - Applied Abound 2.08F to all vines in our new vineyard
>(in North Alabama)
>
>May 10, 4:15pm - Left to go out of town for weekend
>
>May 10, 5:00pm - Mother nature dumped .75 inches of torrential
>rainfall on still wet (from spray application) vines. Dang!
>
>May 11-23 - Drought. Absolutely zero rainfall in North Alabama after
>May 10 torrent..
>
>May 13, 9:00am - Got back in town. Applied Mancozeb to all vines.
>Prayed.
>
>May 23, 3:30pm - Noticed small brown spots on periphery edges of most
>varietals (see attached picture). Dang!!! Pulled out some hair.
>Started to drink.
>
>Looking for positive identification of disease of what to do moving
>forward. Symptoms are apparent on many leaves making it impractical
>and risky to defoliate since these are first-year vines with little
>vegetation.
>
>What to do? Are we in trouble?
>
>HELP!!!
>
>Thanks,
>Charles Erwin