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Reply With QuoteWow, now that is some pruning. I don't remember my grandfather pruning his much, guess that's why there never were many grapes.....lol. Are you going to try rooting any of the cuttings?
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30 Year Old Isons Muscadine Vine Rescue
I planted this vine 30 years ago, made the Arbor, and dreamed of the buckets of Muscadines I would pick. Fast forward to today, the 5 gallons of Muscadines I picked last year was the first harvest of any amount. Muscadine vines produce fruit on 1 year old wood not 2 years or older. I never knew that till I really did a deep dive into farming the plants.
In the tangled mess you see is a lot of dead wood, dying wood, new wood, etc all balled up in a poor condition of a vine. Thank God for YouTube as numerous Muscadine farmers posting Vine Maintenance has really educated me in everything I have done wrong. The Hedge needed Trimming!
These pictures are from the top down, I had to start by picking out some young shoots that bared fruit last year to trim free and work out of the Hog Panel before wholesale removal of the rest of the vine top. The first picture, the large diameter wood, is dead, I didn't know. I continued to find dead and dying wood as I cut away now realizing I wasted a lot of years wondering why the vine didn't fruit. In the last picture you see most of what I removed and most of which was too old to ever bear fruit.
You can see here the three young shoots that will become the new Laterals for the Vine. In the second picture that hole looking damage in the vine has actually desiccated internally greatly reducing the vine's ability to carry nutrients above the point of the damage. There is nothing left of the Arbor but the posts which I will pull up today. I will put the Auger on the Bobcat and sink two 12ft sections of Telephone poles for the cable the vine will be run on.
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Wow, now that is some pruning. I don't remember my grandfather pruning his much, guess that's why there never were many grapes.....lol. Are you going to try rooting any of the cuttings?
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No, propagation is done by air layering in summer. That's how all the Nurseries do it. I am going to graft a ton of Stan's cuttings to all the wild vines in the next week or so and will of course post the good and bad.Originally Posted by SuperDave336
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One Mayhaw Budding Early.....too Early
I went and picked up 4 Mayhaw Trees from a Nursery outside of Jackson last year. Surprise Mayhaw is supposed to be a late variety Mayhaw so we don't loose the blooms to a frost. While checking & pruning the Mayhaw trees on the place yesterday I found one already well on its way to blooming, way too early.
I checked this new tree against a Maxine Mayhaw tree and you can see in this picture the lack of bud swell. If the buds were swollen like the Surprise Mayhaw they would be very easy to see on this tree.
Fortunately grafting a Mayhaw tree is so easy you can almost throw a cutting from the desired variety over the top of the tree you want to change and it will change it. Cleft grafts while the tree is dormant is the easiest way to Topwork a Mayhaw.
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I took a grafting course as part of my Louisiana Master Gardener training. Rojo like everything else he does does it very well.
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Fig Pop Propagation Method Round Two
After a visit to fellow CDC member P-Nut's house to deliver tamales this morning and visit for a bit I got back to pack up a package before starting back on the fig cutting propagation.
After pulling the fig cuttings out of the fridge they needed drying so I could label each one before bagging. These paint pens write on just about anything. After the paint dries I wrap each cutting where it will be above ground with Parafilm to prevent the cutting from drying out.
Still using the cut piece of pvc I do the same procedure as last time, add media to a bag, prep a cutting by making a fresh cut on the bottom right below a node. After scarring the bark on both sides a couple of inches from the bottom. Then using a rooting hormone on the fresh wounds before placing the cutting in a bag.
This is how many I have done so far. You can see in some of the pictures the cuttings are budding out. I think I need to leave them in the dark till well rooted but will follow up if that turns out to be wrong.
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Yes, it is so old it has no gel left to it, consistency of water now. Bottom of the bottle now but seems to still work. The budding figs are all Smith.
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I have to move a grow light over them tomorrow. I just refreshed myself on when to add light and when leaves & roots show you put the light on them.
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Update to Fig Tree Cutting Rooting 2/23/2024
The fig cutting are breaking the parafilm. I have been here before, it remains to be seen any root development yet. This is the "Fig Pop" method of rooting fig cuttings.
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