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2024 Year in Review

January 27, 2025 - 8:01pm -- smith.12720@osu.edu

By: Maria Smith and Diane Kinney, HCS-OSU

This article summarizes the 2024 dormant and growing season conditions and their impact on grape varieties grown at the research vineyard of the CFAES-Wooster Campus.

Weather: Temperature

Vineyard Winterization

October 25, 2024 - 6:27pm -- smith.12720@osu.edu

By: Maria Smith, HCS-OSU

Semisonic’s 1998 hit, “Closing Time”, an anthem to endings, encapsulates the take-home message of this post: "every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end." A chapter ends, and the next begins, each building on the one before. The same applies to vineyards; the success of the 2025 season begins with how we end 2024.

Vineyard Updates - July 2024

July 17, 2024 - 7:08pm -- smith.12720@osu.edu

By: Maria Smith, HCS-OSU

You’re not being misled. We actually are already past the halfway point of the growing season, with many early ripening cultivars entering veraison across the state at least 1-2 weeks ahead of when we typically expect. So, what’s happening?!

Freeze Watch: April 24, 2024

April 24, 2024 - 10:46am -- smith.12720@osu.edu

By: Maria Smith, HCS-OSU

Buds are breaking across Ohio and here in Wooster (Fig. 1), but frost risk looms again tonight. A few regions of Ohio reached damaging temperatures for green tissues on the morning of April 22 (Fig. 2), with minor damage observed in some vineyards in Central and Southern Ohio.

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