NorthernWinos
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Last fall I took some cuttings and grew them under fluorescent lights during the winter...see previous post..
http://www.finevinewines.com/Wiz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1088
I cut them back this spring and set them out in the nursery part of the garden, they survived the drought with a bit of watering and are alive...I expect they will live through the coming winter....hope so anyway...
Here is a photo of 2 year old cuttings in a nursery row, there is also a 3 year old vine on the right that much to my surprise had some fruit on it this year....these plants have got to get moved to someplace next spring...
Here is another way to make new plants....Think it is called layering...let a sucker grow from the base of a desired vine...bury it...
leaving the tip exposed...
I always place rocks on the buried part, just to keep the vine underground and to mark it...
Voilà...a new plant grows from the tip...
This is the second year for this 'layered' vine...it can be severed from the main plant and moved, but think I will just leave it near it's mother plant.
This method also works with roses and shrubs...
Hope this has been helpful...
http://www.finevinewines.com/Wiz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1088
I cut them back this spring and set them out in the nursery part of the garden, they survived the drought with a bit of watering and are alive...I expect they will live through the coming winter....hope so anyway...
Here is a photo of 2 year old cuttings in a nursery row, there is also a 3 year old vine on the right that much to my surprise had some fruit on it this year....these plants have got to get moved to someplace next spring...
Here is another way to make new plants....Think it is called layering...let a sucker grow from the base of a desired vine...bury it...
leaving the tip exposed...
I always place rocks on the buried part, just to keep the vine underground and to mark it...
Voilà...a new plant grows from the tip...
This is the second year for this 'layered' vine...it can be severed from the main plant and moved, but think I will just leave it near it's mother plant.
This method also works with roses and shrubs...
Hope this has been helpful...