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