My Wild Grape Vine

[Len B]

The grapes are not good for eating but the torts love the leaves,this year it has reached 80 feet in length, I pick over 100 leaves a day for food, Walker doesn't eat from the vine but will eat them if I pick em for him,He's spoiled.

 

[ALDABRAMAN]

Ours love them also.......

 

[bigred]

Wow that is a huge grape vine. I just bought 2 but they are still small

 

[Blakem]

I just tried our leafs for my russian, he did not seem to care for them yet.

 

[Yvonne G]

My grape vine is good for about a month in the spring, then the grape-leaf skeletonizers lay their eggs on the undersides of the leaves and in no time at all, most of the leaves are gone. At first I tried picking them off, but its too big a job. It gets away from me.

 

[DesertGrandma]

My grape vine is good for about a month in the spring, then the grape-leaf skeletonizers lay their eggs on the undersides of the leaves and in no time at all, most of the leaves are gone. At first I tried picking them off, but its too big a job. It gets away from me.

What are grape-leaf skeletonizers? I am getting so many leaves right now I would be devastated if I had this problem. Is there anything nontoxic to get rid of it?

 

[ascott]

Is that a Frenchie butt I see in the pic?

I planted two grape vines last year and only one made it...the fricken gophers got the roots of the other....

 

[Len B]

Is that a Frenchie butt I see in the pic?

I planted two grape vines last year and only one made it...the fricken gophers got the roots of the other....

He has some Frenchie in him, when we adopted him we were told he was a Boston, that had originated from that long yard sale in Tenn,he was still a pup, as he filled out the French side started showing more, he went through several homes before he found us, those families missed out on a sweet dog. His name was Peanut I didn't think he looked like a peanut so changed it to Chester.

 

[ascott]

Chester is much more dignified....I love the Frenchie, i use to show Old English Bulldogs....I am a bit partial to the flat faces....

 

[redbeef]

grape leaf skeletonizers:

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/r302301011.html

don't know if they've made it to AZ yet, so you might be safe, DesertGrandma

I did a quick search around the web and it looks like there might be a viral product, Virosoft CP4, that might work on controlling this pest...alternately, I believe bacillus thuringiensis is considered pretty low impact, i know it isn't supposed to affect mammals...and it seems to be OK for other vertebrates as well.

 

[DesertGrandma]

grape leaf skeletonizers:

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/r302301011.html

don't know if they've made it to AZ yet, so you might be safe, DesertGrandma

I did a quick search around the web and it looks like there might be a viral product, Virosoft CP4, that might work on controlling this pest...alternately, I believe bacillus thuringiensis is considered pretty low impact, i know it isn't supposed to affect mammals...and it seems to be OK for other vertebrates as well.

Thanks Redbeef. This is good information.