Losses of high-end varieties estimated at 95-100 per cent
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Growers have been checking their vines all week and doing a lot of sampling and dissecting of buds “to get some facts instead of emotions,” said Ells.“All the vinifera vines, it looks like there’s not going to be a crop this year.” He said that may be able to be corrected a little with pruning “but there’s no chance of a hundred per cent crop.”
Beside the buds, it's not known yet how extensive vascular damage was to the plants over the two-day cold snap, Ells said. Regardless of whether there is such damage, “it will take multiple years to get back into full production, whether it’s replacing vines or rebuilding plants that are there.” In the spring, when there are cold and starry nights with no wind, berry producers will use fans or fires to prevent frost damage to their crops, but the vortex “meant there was nothing we could do,” Ells said.
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