Monitor your vines for color change in the fall
By: Maria Smith, HCS-OSU
My favorite week of the year is here: peak fall color has finally arrived in Wooster.
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Fall Maintenance of Sprayers
Erdal Ozkan. Professor and Extension State Specialist
The Ohio State University, FABE
Time to give your sprayer some TLC by properly winterizing it.
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
Capitalize on Advancements in Spray Technology
By: Erdal Ozkan, Professor and Extension State Specialist, Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering-OSU
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.
2024 Year in Review
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
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:
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