To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] grape propagating
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 07:58:44 -0700
Del,
I followed Lon's instructions this year which included bottom heat. Like
you, I had great success this year rooting cuttings. Compare this to an
earlier attempt without the heat which was a failure.
When can I expect my first harvest from these cuttings?
-Mark Lee, Seattle zone 7B/8A
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Subject: [NAFEX] grape propagating
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