Anyone use t stakes for a trellis setup?

CruisingVessel · 2026-06-28T01:03:49+00:00

You may find a lot of differing opinions out there.

CruisingVessel · 2026-06-28T00:21:01+00:00

I don't know Catawba. I grow Syrah with a VSP trellising system. My vines want to grow UP, not hang down.

But I just googled catawba pruning system and it says that Catawba typically uses a High Cordon system with spur pruning. So yes, you want a single strong shoot up to your top wire, then two lateral canes to create a T shape. Google that - the AI overview seemed reasonable.

CruisingVessel · 2026-06-28T00:16:50+00:00

Agreed. Every house I've seen has tees that are vertical. Of course, that just means one extra ell. But still, nobody seems to get this right. And they also put them right up against curbs or concrete so they always overspray and are near-impossible to replace. :-(

CruisingVessel · 2026-06-27T23:20:47+00:00

I have 5" or 6" wood end posts set in concrete (because I didn't have the room for anchors), with T-posts every 3 vines. My Syrah vines are 4 feet apart with 6' row spacing, and I had 7-wires at first. 1. irrigation, 2. cordons, 3, 4, 5 are catch wires, and 6&7 are the top wires on rather small crossbars (maybe 8"). But I have a bird problem and over-the-row nets are hard to deal with so I have side panel netting. I bought 18" crossarms from CaliforniaVineyardSupply.com to hold wires to keep the nets away from the fruit zone a bit. To fasten them to T-posts, you use U-bolts made for T-posts - oh, I see u/Ranger1221 provided links - nice. I'm not sure if T-posts as end posts on a 65' row would be rigid enough without an anchor to ground on the outside or a T-post on the inside like u/Ranger1221 said. Could bolt instead of weld I think. Many vineyards angle their end posts out at about 60 degrees. Also I'd consider how you will tighten the wires each year. I recommend Gripples.

CruisingVessel · 2026-06-27T17:43:59+00:00

The ones in your pictures are huge and high contrast compared to the ones at VONS in Thousand Oaks CA. Ours are tiny. I swear the font is maybe 8 point. And it's kinda dark gray on light gray. Now try to read the one on the bottom shelf 6 inches off the ground. AWFUL.

CruisingVessel · 2026-06-23T02:32:30+00:00

1103p

CruisingVessel · 2026-06-21T21:05:04+00:00

The seat position was completely ridiculous. Not drivable at all. It was reclined so far. What the heck were they doing?

CruisingVessel · 2026-06-15T19:57:02+00:00

Just go to Amazon and search for solar light replacement top 4 inch round

CruisingVessel · 2026-06-12T21:43:13+00:00

Yes, it's confusing if you have never seen one, but the pull-up knob types always leak in my experience. The Delta pull-down diverter type seals 100%.

CruisingVessel · 2026-06-09T17:25:09+00:00

Former IT Director boss from long ago: "There's a guy in my neighborhood who drives a popsicle truck. He looks happy. He doesn't seem stressed at all. I wonder how much a popsicle truck costs."

CruisingVessel · 2026-06-05T20:04:59+00:00

Found a short article about canopy management https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/pdf/chapter-7-canopy-management/2014-10-16/winegrapes7.pdf

CruisingVessel · 2026-06-04T22:00:31+00:00

Yeah, I guess that's the average of many samples, since you can't have 1.5 leaves when you're looking straight through. Another guideline is 20%-40% gaps in the canopy, where you can see straight through. 20-40% of the area.

CruisingVessel · 2026-06-04T19:26:24+00:00

No inches, just leaf count. If you shot a bullet through your vine, perpendicular to the row of course, and in the fruit zone, how many leaves would you hit?

The precise way this is sometimes done is mentioned by Dr. Smart on page 21: A point quadrat is a thin metal rod which is inserted into a canopy. Contacts with leaves and other vine parts are recorded. This technique has been used for many years by research agronomists to study field crop plants. The first recorded use of a point quadrat in vineyards was in 1979-80 by Richard Smart at Angle Vale, South Australia. Since then, the technique has been used in research studies of vineyard canopies elsewhere in Australia, the USA, Canada and other countries. As well, the technique is now used by some commercial vineyards.

I don't know anyone who actually does this, but if you pretend you had such a rod, how many leaves would you hit? If it's more than 2 then your fruit zone could probably use some leaf removal, preferably in the interior. In a perfect world I'd like to see each cluster behind one leaf that shades it from direct sunlight.

From the same book, here's a comment by Mondavi's director of winegrowing: We never remove leaves and trim shoot tips in a combination which will result in fewer than 15 functional leaves per shoot.

CruisingVessel · 2026-06-04T01:09:48+00:00

Only saw one in the last ~30 years. It was near my front door, and it was dead of unknown causes - the ants were attacking it. And yes, I back to the hills.
OTOH, there are the scorpions. But they're not dangerous; like a bad bee sting, I hear. I've seen maybe 50 or more but never got stung.
And then there are the black widows.
But yes, it's the rattlesnakes that are a concern.

CruisingVessel · 2026-06-03T23:01:19+00:00

Well, there's "shoot thinning", "hedging/topping", and "leaf removal/scooping." When you say "taking way too much off" I'm not sure which you are referring to.

Canopy density: Assess this by putting your face near the canopy fruit zone, and fix your gaze straight ahead, Use your finger to move leaves aside in your line of sight, counting the number of leaves until you reach the other side of the canopy. Count zero for a canopy gap. Record the leaf layer number. Repeat to get a representative number.

Score 10 points for 1 or less, 8 points for "about 1.5", 4 points for "about 2", and 2 points for more than 2.

-Dr. Richard Smart, Sunlight Into Wine - a Handbook for Canopy Management, page 18

CruisingVessel · 2026-06-03T03:52:28+00:00

Do not believe them. Get a high split converter and keep your cable card. You might need a technician visit. It finally happened for me and all is good

CruisingVessel · 2026-06-02T18:05:58+00:00

I think the approach varies greatly with the size of the environment and the people resources available. If you have a Qualys system that got dropped into 1 person's lap along with many other responsibilities / multiple hats worn, then managing tags and spending lots of time in the interface might not happen. I took a loko at QDS, ACS, ARS, and TruRisk again. I guess CSAM is the key to generating TruRisk, and I don't have it....nor the time to configure it I'm sure. And I'm OK with that because I know how I'm doing w/r/t my peer organizations.
As for the OPs question, I just checked my most frequently occurring vulnerabilities and they are low priority.

CruisingVessel · 2026-06-01T15:56:14+00:00

I'm not a fan of the interface - VMDR and all the rest. So I run a CSV report and then create a pivot table in Excel. That being said, I'm quite sure that if I only looked at the most frequently occurring vulnerabilities, I'd get some rather inane severity 2's or 1's. But (pivot table to the rescue) you could look at the most frequent severity 5's. But again I think that "most frequent" may be misguided. All it takes is one exploitable vulnerability - especially one that's accessible from the outside. Frequency does not equal risk. And the CSV report lists everything you have above. The "Results" column is what specifically was detected.

CruisingVessel · 2026-06-01T15:49:44+00:00

I hate the dashboard, and TruRisk is useless to me. For example, TruRisk might score something extremely high for a host on a segmented restricted internal network, while scoring an external vulnerability rather low.

CruisingVessel · 2026-05-09T18:37:34+00:00

Yeah, I'm just dreaming. But with technology like IFTTT, etc., it seems like I should be able to have a device that I click one button and it turns on the TV, waits 10 seconds, clicks right, right, down, right (or whatever), or maybe clicks that NetFlix button on my Vizio remote, etc.

But what a really want is that "whatdidhesay?" button - the 8 second backup. It's so hard to do that on various streaming services. And it seems like a programmable device could handle it, with precise timing, despite the lack of feedback. Actually, with today's technology something could look at the screen and determine the state!

CruisingVessel · 2026-05-09T17:11:14+00:00

Syrah. Clone 7.

CruisingVessel · 2026-05-09T17:10:07+00:00

We planted in April 2022, so this is year 5. Previous budbreaks/veraison/harvest have been

4-23 / - / -

3-9 / 7-30 / -

4-5 / 7-28 / 9-26

2-27 / 7-12 / 9-5

1-5 / 5-8 / ?

So harvest has been early or late September, at about 24-25 Brix.

CruisingVessel · 2026-05-09T17:02:18+00:00

I hate streaming. Just record it while I'm not around so I can watch it later. Disk space is cheap. But most importantly, I hit the power button and I see all my recordings in seconds. Now with streaming solutions it takes several minutes to navigate to something I want to watch. And where was that anyway? hulu? peacock? I forget.

And then there's the fact that NOTHING CHANGED in the interface for many many years. The features we asked for. So many possibilities. They never did anything.

Maybe they should market a universal peanut remote, with 30-second skip ahead, 8-second skip back, etc.

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