Grape Powdery Mildew
Powdery Mildew Spore Trapping
Powdery Mildew (PM) is an insidious disease. It is driven by the amount of inoculum (spores) overwintering from last season or spores blowing in from neighboring vineyards.
PM spores are invisible to the naked eye yet detectable in air samples. Knowing whether inoculum is in a given spot in your vineyard is critical to effective management of the disease.
Monitoring vineyard air twice weekly using spore trapping technology at the start of bud break can give you a 7-10 day head start on controlling the disease. Results are delivered to growers and vineyard managers within 24 hours of sample collection; giving the grower the actionable results.
Amy Peetz - Owner/Operator
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Amy got her master's degree in plant pathology at Oregon State University. She studied powdery mildew in hops during her graduate education. Immediately after graduation she was hired to work on powdery mildew of grape. She designed the probe used to identify grape powdery mildew in vineyard air samples which was field tested for nearly 1
Amy got her master's degree in plant pathology at Oregon State University. She studied powdery mildew in hops during her graduate education. Immediately after graduation she was hired to work on powdery mildew of grape. She designed the probe used to identify grape powdery mildew in vineyard air samples which was field tested for nearly 10 years of research before she commercialized the technology. Amy loves using science to help growers manage their fields with greater economic and environmental efficiency!
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