another warm very early spring day in the vineyard. yeaterday i learned somthing that might interest you guys. last spring we planted cuttings and bare root stock. the root stock all took; aobut 1/2 of the cuttings took. the other half looked dead and dry all summer.by fall, they looked like dead sticks in the ground. my wife puuled them and there was absolutely no sign of root development. , personally, would have tossed them. she covered the bottoms with rooting hormone and stuck them back in the ground.
yeaterday, while pruning healthy stuff, i looked at one of these very sad and dry and dead looking cuttings and decided to pull it and toss it. holy cow, batman, thre was a nice white 3 inch root at the bottom. i quickly replanted it in a different spot and dug up some more "dead" cuttings. same thing; roots. i replanted them all. what i learned is that a cutting that was planted one year ago, and that looked and acted dead all summer long and that was treatd with rooting hormone and stuck back in in spetember can be alive the folloing spring. maybe everyone knows about this, but it was news to us. the reason i was haopy was because some of these cuttings were of unusual grapes sent to me from oregon and not available to the general public.
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yeaterday, while pruning healthy stuff, i looked at one of these very sad and dry and dead looking cuttings and decided to pull it and toss it. holy cow, batman, thre was a nice white 3 inch root at the bottom. i quickly replanted it in a different spot and dug up some more "dead" cuttings. same thing; roots. i replanted them all. what i learned is that a cutting that was planted one year ago, and that looked and acted dead all summer long and that was treatd with rooting hormone and stuck back in in spetember can be alive the folloing spring. maybe everyone knows about this, but it was news to us. the reason i was haopy was because some of these cuttings were of unusual grapes sent to me from oregon and not available to the general public.
keep in touch.
