Grapevines tend to be easy to propagate from hardwood cuttings. When a cutting has roots, it can be planted at any time of year. For best results, however, it is a good idea to wait until after the ...

Propagating grapes from dormant hardwood cuttings is a realistic venture for anyone with access to grape vines. Since grapes should have 80 – 90 percent of their vines removed every year, you just ...

Propagating grapes from dormant hardwood cuttings is a realistic venture for anyone with access to grape vines. Since grapes should have 80 – 90% of their vines removed every year, you just need to ...

Early to mid-summer is the best time to propagate muscadine grapes. Muscadine grapes are native to the southeastern United States. They are tolerant to most insects and diseases and normally can be ...

Grapevine nurseries soak cuttings in water during propagation to compensate for dehydration and promote root initiation. However, trunk disease pathogens have been isolated from soaking water, ...

Q: I have a 5-year-old Thomcord grape and I was wondering how to prune it properly. I am using it to shade a chicken coop. A: I have never grown a Thomcord grape so I had to do a bit of reading up on ...

Farmers used to pour water down ditches or furrows to irrigate their vineyards, or use overhead sprinklers. Most growers have to pump water underground from wells and that can be expensive. So in San ...

UC Berkeley postdoctoral scholar Alexandra Kahn (left) and graduate student Monica Donegan with historic grapevine specimens from the University and Jepsen Herbaria. A century-old grapevine cutting is ...