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Produce => Pests & Diseases => Topic started by: littlegem on May 17, 2005, 11:47:16

Title: small balls
Post by: littlegem on May 17, 2005, 11:47:16

I have a mature grape vine that we adopted when we bought the house in november. its coming out lovely, but the other day i noticed lots of tiny clear balls on the green stems. what are these and if they are bad, how do i get rid of them? ???

Title: Re: small balls
Post by: northener on May 17, 2005, 14:54:10

Sound like eggs of some sort , slugs? squish em if they are.

Title: Re: small balls
Post by: littlegem on May 17, 2005, 15:00:11

fellow northerner, they cant be slugs, slugs wouldnt b able to fly up there to lay eggs

Title: Re: small balls
Post by: Diana on May 17, 2005, 16:31:48

No, but it could well be snails, esp if trained up a wall - we're forever picking them off my Dad's vine! Horrible when you harvest + the bunches are full of baby crunchies!

Title: Re: small balls
Post by: littlegem on May 17, 2005, 21:16:29

any ideas what i could spray them with in egg stage, dont want an epidemic of anything!!!!

Title: Re: small balls
Post by: Diana on May 18, 2005, 08:25:13

I'd pick them off + chuck 'em in a tub of brine - saves the spraying.

Title: Re: small balls
Post by: northener on May 18, 2005, 12:51:31

Now that would be a nightmare, flying slugs. Whereabouts are you upt North Littlegem?

Title: Re: small balls
Post by: littlegem on May 18, 2005, 13:29:41

NORTHERNER - nth notts, not too north but north enough to have an aversion with southerners!!! ;D sorry all you southerners, its a northern thing ;)

Title: Re: small balls
Post by: Diana on May 18, 2005, 13:38:44

That's not north!

That's got to be 350+ miles SOUTH of me! ;D

Title: Re: small balls
Post by: littlegem on May 18, 2005, 13:42:47

it is north, cos we have brown sauce (HP), not red (ketchup) on our full day breakfasts

Title: Re: small balls
Post by: Svea on May 18, 2005, 14:15:50

it's north of watford gap, right? ;)

Title: Re: small balls
Post by: littlegem on May 18, 2005, 14:39:31

exactly, or some would say, north of milton keynes. Middle of the road for everything!!! ;D

Title: Re: small balls
Post by: aquilegia on May 19, 2005, 17:09:37

I'm a southerner and I have HP sauce. Hate the red stuff. yuck. Does that make me honourary northern?

Title: Re: small balls
Post by: Val on May 19, 2005, 18:11:22

I'm a southerner.....move here we don't get flying slugs or snails, we don't have Bottled sauce, we give that to the staff....from the north.

Title: Re: small balls
Post by: return of the mac on May 19, 2005, 18:44:15

Hahahaha I am the northest (Aberdeen) (in the village hehe) and i have tam sauce- its best!
I also have those eggs on my grapevine but i doubt that its slugs.

Title: Re: small balls
Post by: Diana on May 19, 2005, 20:27:54

I'm sorry, I think I've missed something - where did these flying snails come from? I think it was something I said, but I really can't see what ???

Title: Re: small balls
Post by: Marianne on May 20, 2005, 08:54:32

I found clear small balls under my pots in the cold frame about 2 months ago.  There were adult slugs lurking under the pots too so I suspect they are their babies  :o ???

I pulled them all off and never had any other problem.

Title: Re: small balls
Post by: wardy on May 20, 2005, 13:23:46

Littlegem   I used to work in North Notts at 't pit  ;D

Title: Re: small balls
Post by: littlegem on May 20, 2005, 14:02:36

which one wardy? worksop, harworth?

Title: Re: small balls
Post by: lorna on May 20, 2005, 18:53:39

Aversion to Southerners? I would never have believed that of you Little Gem ;D Having said that as a South Londoner born and bred we also have a North and South divide.. North of the Thames and the BEST South of the Thames. I will be back down there in a few weeks visiting family. Happy weekend. Lorna

Title: Re: small balls
Post by: Marianne on May 20, 2005, 19:12:34

Lorna,
We have some very good friends who live in East Ham.  Is that South or North of the river Thames ??

Title: Re: small balls
Post by: Gardenantics on May 21, 2005, 00:51:30

Talking of balls, I get these on my vine, I think they are the leakage of sap through a hole made by a sap sucking insect of some kind. The sap congeals into a solid ball. Try eating one! if I'm right it will taste sweet, if wrong, then at least one egg won't hatch!
Brian

Title: Re: small balls
Post by: lorna on May 21, 2005, 17:09:46

Marianne. East Ham is North side of Thames (East London) near Blackwall Tunnel'ish I was born in Eltham which is South side (S.E.London) and most of my large family all still live round that area. Erith, Chislehurst, Eltham, Sidcup.. then some in  parts of Kent. Maidstone, Cliffe .I don't think the North of the Thames people consider  us Southerners real Londoners but we don't mind. Have been diving in and out between heavy showers trying to do jobs in garden. Lorna.