Once upon a time on usenet songbird wrote:
Terry Coombs wrote:
songbird wrote:
Terry Coombs wrote:

Someone in another group I read wants to move some 100 year old
grape vines . Any chance of success ? My understanding is that they
root very deeply , wondered if that would make it difficult to
avoid transplant shock .

depends upon what type of vines. if they are grafted
upon different root stock, etc.

how many vines?

if they are self-rooted (all the same plant with no
graft) then they would be much better off by taking
cuttings from 1yr wood and rooting those (similar to
how you'd do roses or many other woody stemmed plants).

I don' know ... were they grafting grape vines on hardy rootstock a
hundred years ago?

yes, the bug that eats roots affects european varieties
that haven't been hybridized to defeat them...

Phylloxera -a root-sucking aphid from America introduced into Europe on the
roots of North American vines a couple hundred years ago.

I had suggested to her that cloning might be an option ... but
grafting would probably be the best option if that's how the
original was propagated .

depends upon the type of vine. if it is an old variety from
europe it will probably require it. if it is a hybrid or
american native it maybe won't.


songbird
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