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  • From: "del stubbs" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [NAFEX] grape propagating
  • Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 22:31:43 +0000


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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