On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 15:45:03 -0400, Peggy O'Grady wrote:

I have a Niagra grape vine in my yard. This year, the leaves seem to be in
the state of suspended animation - no growth. The grapes are developing,
but there has been little leaf growth and no new vine growth. Maybe it's
just an off year for grapes.
"Chris Smolinski" wrote in message
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I seem to have some disease (or lack of nutrients?) on my concord
grapes. The fruit, which is not yet ripe, is getting dark spots and
areas on it. I had this same problem last year, I thought maybe it was
due to the heavy rains we had.

Figuring a picture is worth a thousand words, I took a photo of some of
the fruit: http://www.blackcatsystems.com/concordgrapes.jpg

Maybe someone can identify what the problem is, and what some solutions
might be? I was looking forward to making some grape juice this year :-(

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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
http://www.blackcatsystems.com

My concord grape vines have the same disease. I have a lot of stunted
discolored berries. I tried fungicide last year, didn't help but I only
sprayed once at the beginning of the season. Frankly it seems like a
lose-lose proposition. I suppose that it might be possible to get grapes
if I were to spray them repeatedly but I even if that worked who wants to
eat fungicide covered grapes.