Hi again it's Jason from Fraser Valley rose farm well I'm in one of my
greenhouses here I'm taking down some grape vines I planted them inside here
and they've gone while taking up a lot more space than I want to give them so I
want to relocate them outside and to do that as I take down the stems of these
grapes I'm gonna take some cuttings off of them
and root those for planting outside so this of course being in the middle of
winter and this being a firm stem will be an example of hardwood stem cuttings
and I've done those on this channel before for roses so this will just give
me another opportunity to give you an example of how to take those cuttings
where to root them and I'm hoping to get some good close-ups for you as well so
you can see how those cuttings are taken okay I've got a section of grape stem
here and this is the bottom of it and that was the part that was closest to
the trunk or the base of the plant and then you want to keep track of which
part is the bottom and which is the top because as you can see on this section
here once you take and cut it off there isn't a lot of distinction between what
would look like the top and what would look like the bottom and if you bury the
bottom you may get roots if you bury the top you won't so good thing to keep a
track of their second thing I'm gonna mention here is I'm gonna take a cut on
this section here and show you something there is no look of life there it's
brown on the inside and so that was just a little stub or a stem what you're
looking for on the inside of this is something that still has the look of
life so I'm gonna take another cut right here and hopefully be able to show you
what I mean and here it is again focus on that and
you can see that at the bottom edge in the side there's lighter Browns but more
importantly sort of that pithy whitish greenish in the side of the tissue that
indicates that you have a live part the grapevine so from there that is a
cut take another node right in the center of your screen now that's the
second node here's a third node and I'm going to even push it down to a fourth
node so it's nice if you have more than one node or two nodes on the stem I'm
going to cut above that fourth node there and that is a good cutting of that
grapevine so now I'm going to use some rooting powder on the bottom end make
sure I top that off because you don't want it too thick on there and now
that's ready for sticking in my rooting medium okay here's a bucket of some that
I've taken already and see some are longer and some are a little bit shorter
and over here I'm just sticking these and I stuck some yesterday in a bulb
crate with some potting soil in it and it actually froze a little bit last
night so there's a bit of a crust on there but I pre Dibble the spot for the
one that I'm putting in and so here it is with the rooting hormone on it
and into that spot there in that case it's actually burying the FIR the bottom
node and it's basically up to two other nodes there where it could root although
I suspect that most of the rooting is going to happen from the very bottom of
the cutting okay we'll check in on these in a few months and see how they've done
time for an update on these grape cuttings and you'll note that I have two
rows here the front one is the red the back one is the green variety the red
one and the green one have both started shooting so these are the same dormant
cuttings I placed in there in the middle of January it's the middle
of May now so four months later and try pulling on this I could feel that it's
rooted right from the bottom this one here is a little easier to move so let's
pull that one out and get a look at what's happening on the bottom of the
cutting and I'll pull that up a little bit here and focus and you see that it's
got roots emerging whereas this one is already fully rooted now moving a little
over to the left here and maybe zooming in as well you'll see that one there on
the left has started to shoot but it hasn't developed leaves yet so it's a
little further behind and this one here to the right of it has completely failed
to root so I think there's two in the tray now that have failed to root and
the rest of them are either in the process of rooting or have fully rooted
I'll pull that one out so you can see it a little bit closer a little closer up
in here and I'm just going to remove some of the soil from behind it and
around it so I can maybe get those roots out without damaging it too badly it may
get the question later on what did I do for care of these cuttings in between
the time that I stuck them and now and the answer is pretty much nothing I gave
them the occasional splash of water because this is inside my greenhouse and
so they're not getting natural rainwater but other than that I did nothing at all
other than what you saw me do in the first video which is take the cuttings
and stick them in some rooting hormone all right
here's the look at the base of that thing I'm gonna make sure we're nice and
focused on that here but yeah that's well on its way it's making an excellent
grape cutting it has shoots across the top and leaves across the top it has
roots across the bottom I feel confident that if I put that into a small pot
right now it'll be ready to go into the garden Oh probably just in a month or so
so before you ask the question this is a red horse chestnut tree all right that's
all I have for you today on the update for the hardwood cuttings of
grapes I hope you found it easy I sure did and if you have any questions about
the propagation of anything by cuttings in your garden drop those below the
video I'll see what I can do to help