How To Grow Grape Vines Root Cuttings From Existing Plants

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hey guys welcome back to home standing off the grid today we're going to show you how to route grapevines from cuttings so if you have at least one grapevine or if you know somebody that has a grapevine and you'd like to create more grapevines we're going to show you how to do that all you need is a grapevine some scissors some soil we're going to show you the whole process and we're making this video down here of course where our grapevine guard by our man-made forest I wanted to show you guys that you can see it in the background we planted all those trees from saplings we dug up along our wood line and put down here so that's a beautiful backdrop we have today one point out my safety glasses I'm not afraid I'm gonna put myself in the eyes with my scissors but you might remember another video we made about how to deal with gnats they're everywhere right now and so I've just gotten used to when I'm out in the mornings gardening I wear these so that way I can keep working despite the gnats because as you know if you're messing around with soil and dirt and then that goes in your eye you don't want to be sticking a dirty finger in your eye because you just made your problem worse so with no further ado we're gonna get started honey let's give them some close-up shots every year's thinks exactly what I'm doing now for the time being we've got our grapevines in these cages we made out of two by four inch fencing because we have a lot of deer here we started with three they're spaced apart more than we would like and so what we want to do is start some new vines growing that we're gonna plant in the middle of these vines so that we have a better starting vineyard here so what I want to do is take my vine and we bought these at Lowe's two years ago for $9.99 in like a two and a half quart pot and they were maybe a foot tall you can see the original vine there over the last two years they've done really well so they are perfectly suitable for rooting so you want to have at least ten inches worth of vine but even more importantly is you want to have two to three good node points beneath the surface of your soil so I'm gonna want to have one two three at least so I'm gonna come down I'm going to take my scissors you can use shears I'm gonna cut just above this node or you get any shotted this anywhere I'm cutting I got to move the leaf you want to be just above a node cut it off at an angle with sharp clean scissors or pruning shears now folks we have pruning shears and I'm using scissors because I wanted to kind of point out to you that all this stuff we do doesn't have to be complex and you don't have to have a big piece of property like we do to do it some of the most beautiful gardens I've been seen lately have been in town at the present moment and I've mentioned this before I work as a couriers assistant I'm in town a lot I see some of the most beautiful gardening and get some of the best gardening ideas from people who are growing plants in buckets on patios with 200 square feet of space available they have the most robust gardens I've seen so if you have scissors that's all you need okay that's why I'm using scissors now come on with me what I'm gonna do we're gonna do three and I'd like to keep everything kind of even here I mean honey give them a like a panoramic view slash around and show them all the way through there we consider our horticultural activities art work we've got a tree line up there and we're doing some amazing things in the back okay swing it back around my point is I'm just kind of anal when it comes to and it's driving my wife nuts but about like and maybe it's because I was in the military but about dress right dress things have to be kind of uniform so I'm taking three cuttings from three different plants because I want all of my plans to be uniform this is terrible because mother nature isn't always uniform but I'm gonna do the same thing down here I'm gonna cut this tendril I'm not gonna rip it because I don't want to injure the plant now we're gonna come down here and get our third cutting as you can see this one has some grapes on it you see that honey can you get a good view of the grapes now about an hour ago let's see at 6:42 about an hour ago we're now at 7:42 I was opening the blinds in the dining room and and I pulled him up and there were three deer down here like two big dogs and a little fawn and they were sticking their nose in here looks like they were able to jerk this thing out enough to where they got some of our grapes so let's see one - I want that one under there - so I'm gonna come down here and get from here and then I'm gonna cut off these tendrils just to liberate it from the fence I know I've got my cuttings so let's go over here and show you how simple this is so when it comes to soil and then that's aren't so bad right now you can go to Lowe's and again this is for those of you who might live in town maybe you have limited space once your your grapes take root if you wanted to put them in a bucket grapes are excellent plans to grow in a bucket make sure to drill holes around the bottom so that your excessive water can can drain out but you don't have to have a bunch of acreage to do this you can grow them in a bucket from your balcony and they'll live there for years as long as you want them to live so but with your soil you can go to Lowe's and buy topsoil and potting soil from 2 or 3 dollars a bag now I dug this up from a from a we saw a honey spot one of our honey spots so I don't need to buy so well I've got plenty of it out here on the homestead but I want to point something out we used to try to route a lot of cuttings in soil that we took from what is now a garden spot that was once a rabbit pad we thought well the animal droppings make excellent fertilizer this is gonna work great well what we found out is that the rabbit droppings have a little too much nitrogen in them for rooting plants and for young plants nitrogen is an excellent fertilizer for well rooted more mature plants but if you're doing cuttings to get roots or you're starting new plants avoid too much oxygen there are too much nitrogen okay so I'm just gonna do one I'll do the rest later I don't wanna take up too much of your time but I want to show you how to do this and you're probably saying why you got all your stuff in a sledge guys we found in a sled makes an excellent wheelbarrow we buy these things in the winter we sleigh-ride down our hill and in the spring in the summer we're using the drag stuff around around the homestead so I'm gonna take my grapevine okay I'm going to want to make sure I said two or three knit nodes below the soil surface and as you see that's gonna work out just fine I'm gonna have one two three beneath the soil now I got it I'm measuring this because I want to make sure this goes down far enough in the soil to see that all three nodes are submerged so I'm gonna come down here and cut this off a little bit more to make sure that I can get this third node beneath the soil okay now I'm simply going to cut off the excess leaves here one two three and I'm gonna cut off that tendril there's gonna be a little note there and this is what we're gonna submerge I'm gonna leave some top leaves and this top tendril because this may and this tendril will catch on to a stick I'm gonna use to prop this thing up different plants root different ways for instance when we do a lot of hardwood cuttings from various trees we remove all the foliage except for maybe one on the top because we don't want the plants energy to be wasted feeding a leaf we wanted to go into making the roots grapevines root much quicker than hardwood trees so we are gonna leave a few leaves on top so that the photosynthesis process can take place which will help with the rooting but it'll also help with the healthier plant now from here and here's a little secret you can google this you've probably heard about rooting with willow the Willard Bush and the willow tree both will root very quickly all you got to do is stick them in water they have a natural rooting hormone in them that appears naturally in nature they will also help other plants root so we're not gonna use a rooting hormone we do have a rooting hormone and we have used reading hormone and we're not knocking reading hormone but we've just I need a stick that I'm gonna use to prop this thing up and tie it off to anyway so why not use one that has a natural rooting hormone in it okay so let's give them a close up honey so and what I'm doing here into the top of the pot can you see that I'm gonna use this stick basically just to create a hole for my my grape cutting here so I have a place to stick it because I don't want to push down through the soil with this because this is a much more tender piece of plant here than this in this willow cutting and if I take any roots off of this willow cutting they'll come back within a day or two I mean these things root so quickly so I've got my hole and then I simply place my plant my grape and I see that I've got one two almost three of the notes submerged in the soil but I'm going to guarantee that all three are submerged in the soil because I'm simply going to add more soil okay now the roots on the grapevine don't just form into nodes they'll form in between the nodes as well but by having at least three noes buried I know that I've got a better chance of success and I want to point out to guys not all of our plants that we try to root root many of them do not take root however many of them do and so we'll always make sure to do enough cuttings that even after you know a failure rate that might be higher than we're comfortable with we still get plenty of plants at roots so we can continue to propagate our plants okay remember you don't drown because you fall in water you drowned because you stay there failure when you're dealing with anything is just part of success if you're not failing enough you're not trying hard enough and you're not pushing yourself hard enough she's got to fail to succeed it's like Thomas Edison said when I asked him how did he figure out how to create your light bulb he said well I first found out 10,000 ways how not to create light barley okay he just didn't mention he probably told Nikolai's Tesla's ideas okay sorry about that now my crepe cutting is fully submerged up three nodes I'm going to take my Willow cutting you can use a stick you can use a bamboo if I did wasn't using this I'd use a poplar stick we have a lot of poplar trees and as you probably know they shed their leaves or they shed their branches quite a bit so we don't never have a shortage of sticks now I'm going to stick this down here in the soil just enough to where it's stable okay I'm gonna turn that branch it's growing out like that and then I'm gonna take just a little bit of pine cut off a small length and I'm just going to lightly very lightly secure this grape cutting to the willow cutting and I'm gonna do it just beneath the node and I'm not going to tie it tight enough to harm the plant okay I'm going to do a double tie simple double knot here so that this twine stays here and that'll hold up the plant now from this point I mean we're almost done you see how simple this is I'm going to water this soil very very well and now guys if you're doing this on a balcony you can have like a Tupperware container or some sort of tray under here to catch your excess water so you don't get mud everywhere and I will be putting this in a tray when I put it in its final location but now the water the soil is very well soaked now from here from this point all I'm gonna do I'm gonna do two more after we stop recording here but now from this point I'm going to put it in a shaded area where it will not be in direct sunlight there are two huge mistakes people make when their root plants number one is they water than too much and number two is they put them in direct sunlight and that will burn up the plant and it'll kill it so and we've made both of those mistakes we've learned through trial and error ourselves so I'm gonna put this in a Tupperware container on the back porch that's fully covered and we have a rack there we put plants on so the direct sunlight will never hit it and this will take maybe three or four weeks it might take as long as two months but it's mid-june now and a benefit we have is that by fall this will certainly be rooted we'll be able to get this in the ground so it'll start routing taking up route in the ground and then it'll go through the dormancy period this winter and by next spring we're gonna have a brand new grapevine that's gonna come up and get we'll get to enjoy its growth for the entire season so if you enjoyed this video and you learned something from it please subscribe to our channel homesteading off-the-grid and we'll see you next time
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Channel: Homesteading Off The Grid
Views: 57,227
Rating: 4.7814569 out of 5
Keywords: grape, vine, wife, wine, vinyard, grapes, cutting, cuttings, roots, garden, fruit, horticulture, grow, rooting
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Length: 12min 53sec (773 seconds)
Published: Wed Jun 20 2018
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