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grape
Oct 26, 2011 18:23:40 GMT -5
Post by coppice on Oct 26, 2011 18:23:40 GMT -5
Redneck did the right thing and looked around the homestead and noted his muscadine were fruited, and hearty through a local drouth.
Now I've had mixed result with taking grape cuttings. Freshness and the promptness of my own planting is the likely culprit. Still old school propagation works just fine for any grape.
Propagation: "Pegging" is the simple act of selecting a low laying branch and wounding about a foot away from the dormant growing tip with any sharp object (you wanna spear the stem) insert a little splinter into that wound and rub on some rooting hormone. Lay the wound on some exposed dirt and weight it down with a nice flat rock. You can cut it off from its parent the following fall. It should have roots and be a new baby grape vine.
Seed: Muscadine (and concord or fox) have viable seeds. If you can live with the variability of growing a fruiting plant from seed, all will grow with a winters cold out of doors or in a cold frame. Um, and that's not your freezer or fridge. Stick your seeds in a pot and berm the pot into the garden.
Trellis: Just about all grape will climb (and kill) trees to build their own trellis. A search for Kniffin trellis will work just fine. In full sun.
IMO seed and rooted divisions are dandy barter, or farm stand sale items.
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