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Will do. Hoping to order a few plants this year and if I do I'll get you to give me a hand planting. I also have cuttings callousing, waiting to see how they do. Hopefully they'll go in this year...

It's both new growers and commercial growers. I'm not sure if it will be geared to what you really need to learn for starters. But like I said before I'm willing to show you what I learned.

Here ya go... I'm thinking about attending... https://www.eventbrite.com/e/maryland-grape-and-wine-industry-annual-conference-2020-tickets-81230094399?fbclid=IwAR05JL6bfDeijhwuyJFr9ylMsRknMs2a9gh4K72KfThrUTYnUzj7zumIUXA

This is true, a struggling vine will put its efforts into producing fruit rather than foliage. But in the first years planting you are not trying to produce fruit, you are trying to establish the vine. A first years planting needs one inch of rain per week. I'll be happy to share what I...

Lol. Yes I made the same mistake, and learned from it!! This second go round I really changed things up and it seems to be paying off but I wont really know until I sample some of the grapes this year and see.. I still made a mistake this year and that was ending my spray routine a bit too...

I'm a firm believer that selecting the right rootstock is just as important as varietal selection. My Shiraz is grafted onto 101-14 rootstock and out performed both the Brianna and Enchantment (miserable puke of a plant) I am curious to try grafting the enchantment onto the 101-14 rootstock...

Hi crabjoe, I'm curious to hear what happened with your vineyard attempt. Did the plants die out the first year?? What's your soil like? And did the vines have good sun and airflow? What varieties did you have and on what rootstock??

Yes, I'm afraid that is just too far of a ride for me. But I do plan on attending..... https://www.facebook.com/173249636064008/posts/2566620550060226/ I've watched several videos on grafting, just have never done it before until now. I think I mostly just need to develop how I go about...

I think that when I do this again I will either use grapemans method, or build a box, put the heat mat in, line it with plastic then add 6 or so inches peat perlite mix and stick the cuttings into it upright.

Well no problem getting up to 85f :) I thought about stapling the smaller cuttings but then though I was crazy for considering such a thing. Do you have to remove the staple at some point??

In the grand scheme of things I hope to sell potted vines ready for planting. I also have my eye on my neighbors 40 acres that might go on the market soon. I did use an omega graft and just taped them with electric tape. I do have several wax pots and different waxes for investment casting...

Did you tape your graft unions??

I have a few cab Frank I grafted onto the 101-14 that I'm hoping will take. My rootstock plants are only a year old, so there was not many canes suitable for grafting because of the size difference between the rootstock canes and the cab Frank. But I did get about 25 good cuttings of the...

These get mats take 5 hours to get up to temperature. I set the thermostat to 85 and will check it when I get home to see if it's there. There is a temp probe stuck into the one bag in the center to get temp readings from. Hopefully this works out, if not I have another idea on what to...

My tree pots showed up yesterday. These will be used to grow the vines out for awile before moving them outdoors. Also picked up a heat mat, the growing area is 79 F but the soil temp was only about 70 F. I'm dying to open the bags and see if they are callousing but I know it's just way too...

Cuttings packed up and in the process of callousing...

Up north just behind Fair Hill... Thanks for the welcomes everyone :)

Shiraz July 1st 2019 Shiraz September 4th

So I bought an old farmhouse in 2018 with 5 acres of ground and was trying to decide what to do with the ground rather than just keeping it mowed. A friend said I should plant a vineyard and I kinda shrugged it off at first, but after doing some research it seemed doable. In the summer of...

Hmm, might have to resize my photos...