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Propagating vines
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 12:05 am
by dave45
I have bought a load of dead twigs / prunings. a.k.a. Madeleine Angevine vine cuttings.
Any tips to make them root and thrive?
So far I have soaked them for 2 hours, planted some in perlite and potting compost, some of those on a heated seed tray, some with rooting gel straight into the ground outside, but most in pots.
What is the most hopeful method of rooting these?
Re: Propagating vines
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 12:11 am
by diggernotdreamer
I would say in deep pots with most of the cutting below the soil surface and put onto a heat pad or propagator making sure the compost doesn't dry out
Re: Propagating vines
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 8:49 am
by doofaloofa
I tried John Seymores method in SS
It worked well
Re: Propagating vines
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 1:21 pm
by Green Aura
I'm not sure about the heated propagator. I read somewhere that grape vines like their roots to be cool, so you plant them outside with the vine trained in to the greenhouse, or wherever.
I don't know if the same would apply to striking roots in the first place.
Re: Propagating vines
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 8:19 pm
by dave45
is that warm feet, cold head. Doofaloofa?
Re: Propagating vines
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 8:45 pm
by doofaloofa
JS's technique was to bury 1 y/o hardwood cuttings in sand over the winter
Dig up in the spring at which stage the cutting should have started to grow roots, and plant out into thierfinal resting place, or a pot
As to growing conditions, i believe it depends on the variety
Re: Propagating vines
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 8:30 am
by diggernotdreamer
Re: Propagating vines
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 8:48 am
by doofaloofa
Exactly
But without the male pattern baldness
Re: Propagating vines
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 10:01 am
by diggernotdreamer
he forgot his syrup that day
Re: Propagating vines
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 10:24 pm
by dave45
I was looking at method 2 here
http://www.bunchgrapes.com/cuttings.html
all sorts of differing advice !
Re: Propagating vines
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 9:03 am
by doofaloofa
More than one way to skin a cat* I suppose
*The management does not condone the skinning of cats