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RiumarPat
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Dried out grapes
Sep 17th, 2012 at 8:08pm
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Embarrassed 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?  Huh
  
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Re: Dried out grapes
Reply #1 - Sep 17th, 2012 at 8:17pm
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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)
  
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Reply #2 - Sep 17th, 2012 at 8:34pm
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Keep in your favs this weather page in normally spot on.

http://weather.weatherbug.co.uk/Spain/Tortosa-weather/local-forecast/7-day-forec...
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Reply #3 - Sep 17th, 2012 at 11:56pm
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I've seen a few peoples grapes fail this year.  Could be the weather.
  
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Re: Dried out grapes
Reply #4 - Sep 27th, 2012 at 1:34pm
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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
  
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