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I have noticed tiny egg like things at almost every leaf joint of my newly emerging grapevine leaves.

Are they eggs of some pest ? there seems too many surely .............Honeydew perhaps.The vine came with the house which I have only had 6 months and is in an unheated conservatory.Any info please...

What size and colour?

   I have the same thing, small round stick eggs that glisten

  i havent looked it up yet, but i know the vine has had mealybugs before.

These live inside little tufts of "cotton wool" and are orange if you scrape them off and squeeze them.

  I will have to get this looked into.  The vine is organic, so i hope savona will be sufficient to clear the pest away.

keep following this post ill get back when i can

           ric

Scale insect? or Wooly aphids? both normal on indoor vines, even this mild winter seems to have been sufficient to keep mine clear (outside)


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Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on April 09, 2007, 22:02:06
What size and colour?

1 mm or smaller and almost clear.

hello just read your problem and glad to inform you that you have no problem. What you have in fact is a good thing, it is excess sugar crystals that a very vigorous and happy vine produced when it starts to grow. Every year this will be the first sign that your vine is healthy

Great........Thanks for the info Cloudymoon - I suspected this may be the case.There were just too many of them.