What is the effect of drought on grapevines?
During the dry summer of 1999, Bob Pool and Alan Lakso wrote an excellent article on drought stress in vineyards. It appeared in the September issue of the Lake Erie Vineyard Notes and in the August issue of the Finger Lakes Newsletter (go to http://www.cce.cornell.edu/programs/finger-lakes-grape/No8%20082499.pdf to see the article – this is in pdf format and will take a while to download so be patient). I would urge you to re-read the article because it is very applicable to the 2001 season and the measurements that we are taking in the field.