Dear Laura, There is a lot of potential for fine tuning by using tandem sprays of the BD preps. It's another job to do, but with a radionic instrument you might just fill up the sprayer with water and give it a homeopathic radionic treatment of a BD potency and then spray.
What I would try for holding back the sap is an evening spray of the oak bark (505) spray followed in tandem with a morning spray of horsetail (508). This holds back watery growth, so it also is a good combination for preventing fungus and blights. Best, Hugh Lovel >----- Original Message ----- >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: delaying budbreak with FB > >Hi Laura > Did you have any success with your broadcaster - slowing the vines down? > >> Hugh and all other FB users >> this is my first season with my FB from Hugh. We had an unusually warm >> winter and still warmer spring (30 C yesterday) with lots of rain fall. >The >> result is that my grapevines are hurdling towards budbreak much faster >than >> I can prune. >> I am looking for advise on how to slow them down, hold the sap back ... ? > >I had a look at your website recently and recommend it to all (especially >newcomers to BD) - I have read and heard a lot about the plant >'gestures' associated with BD - in Alex Podolinskys books,-also Allan >Balliet said about his own home garden plants 'standing to attention' for >weeks after spraying preps, Hugh Lovel and others have said similar things, >all over my head until I SAW IT in your pictures of the vines - particularly >the picture of the red variety in the 'a little about Biodynamics', this is >a classic case of 'a picture worth a thousand words'. We have a lot of wine >grapes near us so I am used to the look of commercial chemical nutrition >vines - yours sure are different - I also observed this growth pattern at >the Castagna vineyard at Beechworth in NE Victoria (they farm Biodynamic) - >then went on to an organic vineyard where I am helping install a broadcaster >pipe and it was totally absent - these people have been doing some BD but >are in the process of falling off the (Podolinsky regulated) cart, and have >slipped back to organic management, their vines have a similar growth habit >as chemical farmed ones do. >Anyway thanks for putting the link to your site on BDnow for us to see. >Cheers >Lloyd Charles Visit our website at: www.unionag.org
