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["del stubbs" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>]

Thanks to learning from Lon and a neighbor I am getting much better grape 
propagating. The neighbor gave me an old warming tray he got for a dollar at 
a garage sale. In the fall of 2002 I acquired a nice bunch of grape sticks 
to propagate from.
I put half of them under a small compost pile in November just before freeze 
up. These I dug up and planted in late april when the ground was defrosted. 
The other half I stored in a bag in the veggie drawer of our fridge until 
late March when our closed porch stayed around 25 degreeF. I put the sticks 
in damp peat moss in coffee cans and placed them on the warming tray for 
bottom heat / cold tops. By late april they had callused nicely. Both sets 
of sticks were planted adjacent individually in a piece of plastic permeable 
mulch. I just uploaded a pic of the experiment (taken 2 weeks ago). The lush 
growth on the right is of  the bottom heated ones, on the left are the cold 
planted ones - and only 1/2 of them have budded at all.  Del
  http://pinewoodforge.com/grape.propagation.html

Del Stubbs  www.pinewoodforge.com  ag zone2/3

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