2025 Year in Review
By: Maria Smith and Diane Kinney, HCS-OSU
THIS ARTICLE SUMMARIZES THE 2025 DORMANT AND GROWING SEASON CONDITIONS AND THEIR IMPACT ON GRAPE VARIETIES GROWN AT THE RESEARCH VINEYARD OF THE CFAES-WOOSTER CAMPUS
WEATHER: TEMPERATURE
2025 Season
August/September Hort 2 Updates
By: Maria Smith, HCS-OSU
An abrupt change in weather patterns in late-July has changed the outcome for this growing season for fruit quality and maturity… but not before making its impacts on yield.
August/September weather
Precipitation
July Wooster Unit 2 Updates
By: Maria Smith, OSU-HCS
A one-word summary of July: rain.
June/July weather
Precipitation
Wooster Unit 2 May/June Updates
By: Maria Smith, HCS-OSU
May weather:
Precipitation is the story so far.
The 2025 Growing Season is Off to a Promising Start
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).
January 2025 Polar Vortex Update
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.
Winter Weather Alert - January 22, 2025
They say history doesn’t repeat, rather it rhymes. And right now, it’s feeling much like January 2014-2015 over here:
