College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
By: Maria Smith, HCS-OSU
A few weeks ago (April 22), we officially hit the starting line of the 2025 growing season. Despite some late pruning in our cold-hardy hybrid block, we are now finally at greater than 50% bud break in all cultivars at Hort Unit 2 in Wooster (Table 1).
By: Maria Smith, HCS-OSU
While we anticipate yet another round of arctic air here in Ohio this coming week, we are forecast to be well-above the temperatures we achieved just a few weeks ago (>0F) and not expecting compounding injury from January.
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
They say history doesn’t repeat, rather it rhymes. And right now, it’s feeling much like January 2014-2015 over here:
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.
By Imed Dami, HCS-OSU
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?!
By: Erdal Ozkan, Professor, Extension Pesticide Application Technology Specialist, FABE-OSU
By: Maria Smith, HCS-OSU
The results from the 2023 Ohio Grape Pricing and Production Index are in and summarized below!
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.
