Propagation of Grapevines

Grapes are a vine-growing fruit that come in many varieties that range drastically in taste, color and firmness. They can be a delicious addition to a meal or grown in mass quantities to produce wines, and they can be easily propagated from cuttings to produce healthy grape vines inexpensively.

Pruning shears
Water
Soil
Shovel
Hormone rooting powder

Instructions

- 1
  Cut the stems for propagation between November and February, when the stems are dormant. Choose young, healthy stems from an established grapevine that are about a pencil-width in diameter. Using sharp pruning shears, cut off a stem that contains at least three buds and is nearly a foot long.
- 2
  Trim the top and bottom of your cut stem slightly and at a 45-degree angle so that the ends of the stem are slanted. Trim one side of the stem down to the top bud so that the bud caps off the stem.
- 3
  Make a V-shaped trench in the soil with a shovel in your garden about a foot deep for the stem to grow in.
- 4
  Dip the bottom of your plant cutting in water mixed with a hormone rooting powder to aid the cuttings in root production. Mix the hormone rooting powder with water per the manufacturer's instructions.
- 5
  Stick the cut stem in the ground in the dug trench until only the top bud and about an inch of stem below it sticks out above the soil surface. If you're planting more than one stem for propagation, plant the cuttings about four inches apart.

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