DETERMINING THE IMPACT OF DORMANT SEASON ADVERSE WEATHER PATTERNS ON VINE PERFORMANCE

Objectives:

  • To create an option based decision-making system to assist growers in practices to maintain proper vine growth balance in the current season to allow for proper vine health and maturity entering following seasons.
  • To provide reliable documentation for cultivar performance and characteristics under adverse weather patterns in different regions/districts and vineyard locations.
  • To develop a database that can be used to identify differential cultivar survival to measured thermal events and whether bud survival percentages vary with cultivar and districts of production.