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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Two days is a little much, but I recommend an overnight soak at least, especially if the cuttings have been in storage a while.  The cuttings seem able to generate callous more easily when they have a full load of water in the cells.  I wrote this up in The Grape Grower.
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at http://www.bunchgrapes.com  Winner of the Garden Writers Association "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
On Mar 4, 2005, at 4:26 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote:

I was talking to a friend the other day who had just pruned his grapes.  He was told to soak them in water for 2 days before rooting them.  Has anyone else heard of this?  Would it's purpose be to encourage callousing?

~mIEKAL

starting pruning tomorrow....