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Water/dew drops covering grape vines...
We've had some dry weather, and today I soaked much of the garden. Mid
afternoon I noticed,clear egg-like drops hanging on the green vines of the grapes. I immediately thought they were eggs of some bug, even spotted a ladybug on the vine too. I took a paper towel and started brushing them off. That's when I realized they were absolutely everywhere. Every green vine had them, even some of the veins under the leaves had a few. The more I brushed them off the damper the paper towel became. Then I realized they were water/sap. So is this normal or did I over do the watering? The ground has very good drainage and there is no standing water. Any watering I do gets absorbed quickly. I don't recall seeing this last year. DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email) Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound 3rd year gardener http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/royalfrazier/ |
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Quite normal, called "guttation" when excess water comes out the
"hydathodes". Other times the water is lost as vapor through transpiration and you don't see it. |
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