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Moth forces wine country's secret into the open
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| On Saturday March 27, 2010, 10:21 pm EDT
| Tracie Cone,
Posted on 03/28/2010 7:29:27 PM PDT by Touch Not the Cat
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To: Touch Not the Cat
...said Greg Clark, deputy agricultural commissioner for Napa County. "Knock it off." Yep, they're getting really tough! I bet that stern statement will stop all this smuggling. How would you stop someone from sneaking in a tiny peice of grapevine anyway? Heck you could tie it around your wrist and it would look like some new age hippy bracelet.
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posted on
03/28/2010 7:36:12 PM PDT
by
apillar
To: Touch Not the Cat
Doesn’t Pill-o-see have a vinyard/winery? *Grins*.
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posted on
03/28/2010 7:36:36 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
To: Touch Not the Cat
Actually, much of the European crop has survived due to transplants from America, my Sicilian uncle tells me.
It works both ways.
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posted on
03/28/2010 7:37:54 PM PDT
by
Kansas58
To: Touch Not the Cat
smuggling things across our borders is illegal. Many disease and destructive elements are re/introduced into our nation. cough *Mexico* cough, excuse me
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posted on
03/28/2010 7:40:24 PM PDT
by
NativeSon
To: NativeSon
Clearly, they need to grant amnesty to all formerly illegal vines. That will solve all the problems.
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posted on
03/28/2010 7:43:39 PM PDT
by
MediaMole
To: apillar; Diana in Wisconsin
I had a Texas black muscadine arbor going in my yard for about ten years. The wife finally got tired of it due to it's location and made me take it out. I can tell you this: all it takes is one cutting, or a couple of viable seeds, because once those vines take firm root, they'll be all over the farm. Birds can carry the seeds for miles in their digestive tracts. And unharvested grapes will spread seeds everywhere. I plan on restarting a new arbor (correctly, this time), and I won't need to visit a nursery for new stock. I'll just go dig a couple out of the hedges. LOL
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posted on
03/28/2010 7:43:44 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(Where the hell can I get a court injunction to keep my own government out of my life?!?)
To: Kansas58
All sorts of folks could have done it...what would prevent the Chileans, New Zealanders, and any number of Euros trying to destroy the crop?
To: BurbankKarl
Or, what would stop someone outside the quarantine area in CA from trying to destroy the growers who are now inside the quarantine area.
What we need are improved grape varieties ~
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posted on
03/28/2010 7:48:22 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
("Git Out The Way")
To: Touch Not the Cat
Suitcase smuggling is the winked-at act of sneaking in cane cuttings to clone vines from France's premier vineyardsShall the American vintners take responsibility, or blame the French? Blaming the French works for me.
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posted on
03/28/2010 7:49:16 PM PDT
by
mlocher
(USA is a sovereign nation)
To: Kansas58
Actually, much of the European crop has survived due to transplants from America, my Sicilian uncle tells me.I have read that Zinfandel and a few lesser known varieties, especially those native to Italy and Greece, have been reintroduced to Europe from America. I have no proof, but I suspect that European's Muslim population was introduced from the United States in one of the shipments.
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posted on
03/28/2010 7:52:21 PM PDT
by
mlocher
(USA is a sovereign nation)
To: Touch Not the Cat
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posted on
03/28/2010 7:58:40 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Never thought I'd have reason to post this image twice in the same century...
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posted on
03/28/2010 8:02:38 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Viking2002
Unless there’s some kind of die off.
When I was a kid, my parents had two huge grape vines that I took care of from the time they were just two little twigs. They outgrew their arbor and grew up a nearby telephone pole, across the wire, to the house, and down the side of the house.
Then one year long after I left home, they just didn’t leaf out. Spring came. Summer came. Nothing. Just dead wood.
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posted on
03/28/2010 8:04:07 PM PDT
by
mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
To: Joe 6-pack
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posted on
03/28/2010 8:21:03 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
OK...you lost me with that one...
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posted on
03/28/2010 8:22:44 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Touch Not the Cat
Instead of greedy capitalists as the cause, it could be economic warfare (sabotage) from other places that grow grapes. Moth eggs are tiny and can be easily mailed.
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posted on
03/28/2010 8:47:33 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: Viking2002
And to think my customers have all kinds of trouble with their grapes up here. Between not pruning them properly (VERY important) to not feeding them, to the Japanese Beetle attacks - it’s a wonder anyone gets ANY grapes, LOL!
I’m off to the trenches! :)
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posted on
03/29/2010 5:38:04 AM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save the Earth. It's the only planet with Chocolate.)
To: Touch Not the Cat
I would not be surprised if this was deliberate act from one of the European vineyard owners?
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posted on
03/29/2010 10:22:54 AM PDT
by
rawhide
To: Diana in Wisconsin
The only thing I've noticed with ours is these tiny little white aphids that love nibbling holes in the leaves, until some of them look like screen in a storm door. I have no idea what they are; I just go get some 101-uses insecticide at Walmart, and have at them.
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posted on
03/29/2010 2:33:38 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(Where the hell can I get a court injunction to keep my own government out of my life?!?)
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