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BTW,

I have tried to grow organically. It worked extremely well on chamboucin and not so well on vinifera. My secret spray, OxiClean. It's cheap and it's mostly sodium percarbonate. Basically it produces hydrogen peroxide ( oxygen bleach) when mixed with water. It is a very efective sporicide. Actually it's a great sporicide. You need to spray about every 5 days ( a number I came up with based on fungus germination cycles) and the one fungus it doesn't seem to stop is phomopsis cane but I did skip a spray that I shouln't have and the jury is still out on that observation. I had a good and extremely clean harvest. I started spraying the wood in March and continued through harvest. I mixed it in a 5 gallon bucket with warm water and used 2 of the little scoops ( the old scoops that came with oxiclean) per 5 gallons. If some one knows of a way to control phomopsis organically, it would work well. I was surprised how little black rot I had considering chambourcin is extremely sensitive to black rot. You can also spray in the rain, which I did many times, and I think it's better to spray in the rain and take advantage of the water that oxiclean needs to produce the hydogen peroxide that it produces when mixed with water. If I had a mechanical sprayer I probably would have continued this year but my arm almost fell off last year spraying the vineyard so often with a backpack sprayer. I highly recommend the stuff, Oxiclean ( sodium percarbonate ) .

Bob