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Title: Dried out grapes
Post by RiumarPat on Sep 17^th, 2012 at 8:08pm

:-[ What has got my grapes? They have got to maturity, large bunches & most are brown empy shells with just a few beautiful tasting green grapes! The brown ones are like inflated balloons nothing in them no juice! I am not here all the time so did not know that something was going wrong, did they need spraying? :-?

Title: Re: Dried out grapes
Post by Ritaratbag on Sep 17^th, 2012 at 8:17pm

Sounds like lack of water.
Lots of trees and plants are suffering here this year.
We need rain and plenty of it, (unlike the U.K)

Title: Re: Dried out grapes
Post by avalidopinion on Sep 17^th, 2012 at 8:34pm

Keep in your favs this weather page in normally spot on.

http://weather.weatherbug.co.uk/Spain/Tortosa-weather/local-forecast/7-day-forecast.html?zcode=z6286&lang_id=en-GB

Title: Re: Dried out grapes
Post by Bigyin on Sep 17^th, 2012 at 11:56pm

I've seen a few peoples grapes fail this year. Could be the weather.

Title: Re: Dried out grapes
Post by Betty_Swollox on Sep 27^th, 2012 at 1:34pm

Hi all,
I have 2 varieties of grapevines: a Muscatel variety from which I harvested over 100kg last year and turned it into wine. This year I have the same problem as RiumarPat in that the fruit started off with a blue/grey tint and then matured to brown empty skins. I managed to collect about 10kg of useable fruit. The other vine has small black grapes that make excellent wine or for juicing. These have not been affected at all.
I have done some research and discovered that the problem is "powdery mildew". Here is a link to a useful article and how to prevent it:
http://organicgardening.about.com/od/diseases/p/PowderyMildew.htm
Good luck,
Simon