Re: spring grape cuttings

>At 01:50 PM 3/24/99 -0600, you wrote:
>>Margaret  there is a difference of opinion about making cuttings.  I cut the
>>top squarely, so I can hammer the pointed bottom end into trhe ground.
>>Well, that's my mnemonic image anyway.  You say the opposite.  What's your
>>image?      Is there an 'approved' way?   Geoff
>>
>The former extension agent, Tony Horn, who advocated planting the cuttings
>upside down for 3 weeks to a month, recommended pruning the base square and
>a slanting cut at the top.  I suspect if your mnemonic image works, keep at
>it. Margaret

We use the same convention in my area.  Evidently the grafting convention
is to cut the top of a piece of scion (which is a cutting) at an angle and
the bottom square.  That way, everyone knows "which end is up," for
grafting or for rooting, even if your scion is traded or sold to someone
you don't know.

Nan
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Nan Sterman
San Diego County California
Sunset zone 24, USDA hardiness zone 10b or 11

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