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Vidal Blanc has budded out today, and 3309C has opened up with three thick, short shoots. Cabernet Sav has 1 leaf, and Syrah has two open buds but the top one's leaf died back two days ago. The chip budded vines are not doing much, in fact the rootstock that I grafted onto seems to not be doing...

Those old black tower bottles are hard to find. The local rose show folks have an arrangement division requiring one and they are in high demand.

Sounds like somewhere near I24. Not too bad a drive, really! EDIT: You did say East....so NOT near I24. I work in Glasgow daily and Edmonton occasionally. Don't know my left from right either.

Now that it has tiny rootlets in the liquid, I added two drops of 2-15-15 liquid fertilizer to the water, which would be a normal dose. The fertilizer liquid contains rooting auxins as well, so hopefully I'll see the top growth slow up and more roots push out over the next week or so, and then...

First roots-4 weeks after I cut this errant cane off my Reliance red grape, the first roots are visible in the glass. Not at the bottom bud, but up right at the surface of the water, at the second bud on the stick! You can see the little rice grains right at the meniscus of the water, these...

What part of Kentucky? I'm down in Warren County/Barren County area.

So about a week ago, the fencerow buds emerged. Starting at the end, I could have left this "cordon" 70ft long and it would have filled in quite nicely as it does every year, but I wanted to experiment with growing other grapes so it got bobbed back to about 10ft long. Here's the buds, you can...

Dunno. It's a research plot, they do weird stuff apparently just to get data.

They did have grape borer at one time, but were able to eliminate it by nematode introduction and spray programs. Went by today on my day off work and helped train vines into their respective trellis styles, learned a bit and also learned what varieties they are switching to this year for the...

Dennis, I'm right next to the WKU vineyards, so any issues they have I'll have here-so far, so good. Biggest problems locally are black rot and powdery mildew, and due to PM being a huge problem for the local tobacco growers we've been lucky that they hunted down and killed off as much as they...

A few shots of my grafting attempts: First, the Syrah on the fencerow vine: After pulling the loose bark off out of the way, I set the bud in place. After tying off, a pair of bleed cuts below the bud: And the one on the 3309C rootstock: A few other views, this one is a Reliance in a...

Central Kentucky. Zone 6, Crider series clay loam soil. In my current location it's about 38 inches till you hit rock, but the county I work in and hope to be buying dirt in, it's about 100 inches to the limestone. Soil acidity is slight to neutral, 48 inches of rain per year, and between 3600...

So, in case any of you are wondering what this doofus is trying to do, here's the idea: Year 1: get a rootstock growing to produce material for bench grafts. Learn how to get the grafts to be take, rootstock to root and 1 year plants to grow solid. Year 2: get a trellis set up for 10 vines...

Had to go cover the grafts and put buckets over all the other plants-supposed to be a tax day hard freeze tonight. You'd think I would learn it. It happens every stinking year.

Attempted my first two grafts today-One on 3309C rootstock that is still dormant, but rooted, and 1 on the old vine in the yard that had no buds on one arm of the trunk. I planned to cut that arm off as it grows through the fence and will eventually die off anyway, so I figure if I can chip bud...

So far, none of the sticks have callused, grown roots, or done anything except attempt to make grapes. Yes, two of the fencerow grape sticks in the dirt busted right into trying to make grapes, with no leaves, and no roots. The Vidal Blanc and Syrah sticks that I stuck into dirt and had on the...

Yes, you've mentioned novavine. I have a pair of 3309C bare-root vines coming, although it was pretty well the same price as a vine from Double A. Only 4$ less, but I did get two plants. We'll see how they do-as long as they grow a bit and I can get a chip graft on them to callus up, I'll be...

Each of those blue tubs holds 50 gallons. They should be fine in those for one or two years, trained as two arm kniffens. In two years I plan to have a few 100ft rows set, but that isn't immediately, so the big pots are what I have till then.

So being as I'm a cheap bast..um...a Thrifty Gentleman, I went out and found some more pots for containerized grapes this year. I'm moving soon so big pots are the answer, but cheap is the key. Free being the best. Scored two feed buckets, each holding 5 cubic feet of dirt. But...10 cubic feet...

We have clay silt loam here, and the university vineyard grows both vidal blanc and syrah on their own roots-they've been there for 20 years now and no significant problems. That said-I plan to graft onto some 101-14 rootstock when I can get some. So far, the only source has been Double-A and...