Thanks, that is encouraging!!, I will bring the top root sections up to an
inch or so from the soil line, rather than 6" down as I would have before,
Del
Have been digging up nursery stock this warm week, but had to quit digging
last years apple grafts today - as the top 2" of ground refroze on me last
night.....
>If only the bud below the soil line is alive, it will push. Just
because
>roots have come from a node doesn't mean that any buds there can't grow.
>If there are buds above the soil line, they usually grow instead of the
ones
>belowground. Year-old rooted plants can push buds from below the soil
line.
>Unless removed, buds are always there, even after years of wood being
laid
>down over them. Cut off an old vine and buried buds will push from deep
>inside the wood of the remaining part.
>-Lon Rombough