@cdamarjian, this last weekend I put the (excellent) Agria cuttings you sent into their rooting cups. These are 32 Oz plastic cups filled with a mixture of pearlite and sphagnum moss. The moss was wetted, but not enough to squeeze water out of them. Three small holes were drilled near the bottom; one on the bottom and two on the sides near the bottom with an 1/8th inch drill bit. The exposed tops of the cuttings were tightly wrapped with one layer of saran wrap, in a spiral, made from thin strips. The tops of the rooting cups were sealed with saran wrap, but a 1/4 inch gap is around the base where the cutting pokes through.
I read conflicting reports about the usage of rooting hormones. For two of the cuttings, I cut down to the green at the bottom, below a node, and dipped in Bonide rooting hormone that was mixed into a cup of water. I donāt like to leave any powder on the cutting, I have gotten a lot of fig cutting failures when I put too much rooting hormone on; mostly I just want some of the diluted hormone to absorb into the fresh cuts on the end. For the third cutting, I didnāt put any rooting hormone on.
Lastly ā I made sure to label on the cups!
I am planning on putting these on low bottom heat this week. I have had good success with the above approach with figs, but have only tried it on grapes once (glenora) and it was done lazily - but it was still successful! So, I will see what happens with these and report. And if I have multiple Agria vines later this year, maybe someone else on this forum will want to try one out. The rest of the cuttings I am saving in the refrigerator for grafting attempts. Iām pretty ok at fig grafting but seem to be rubbish at grape grafting. However, Iām hoping that by keeping these dormant in the fridge and waiting until my current vines are growing vigorously, I will have better success than I have had in the past.
(Cuts on the end for absorbing rooting hormone solution. The cuttings in the background are figs, not the grapes)
eugene costco has pretty decent looking haworth nursery bare root trees now, $20 single variety $28 for combo. I picked up shiro, satsuma, euro pear combo and asian pear combo for a friendās orchard. I imagine the other willamette valley costcos have some too
A new tree of Flavor Delight aprium is blooming here. Closest plum to blooming is Beauty, second pic, but still at green popcorn stage.
I have a Harcot of the same age that the blossom buds are still maybe 2 weeks till opening
I am in Portland, OR and my Summer Delight Aprium (latest blooming variety) is close to 30% bloom. Went with summer delight based on report from WSU tests that said flavor delight rarely fruited.
I wish I could upload the videos but apparently the files were too large. At about 8 am water looked like this. At 12:57 there was almost nothing but water. Water was 40ā high for about 5 hours. All of the vegetation in the middle here was under water. All my summer pasture was under water, because the river and pasture were indistinguishable. A dead deer floated by IN THE PASTURE, along with logs, fallen trees, orange and purple balls, and someoneās fence cutters (which I was able to get when they snagged on a fence.). I called 76 employees from my cell and told them no work in the morning. I went outside again about 6 pm and itās back to looking like this morning.
View from neighborsā back yard. I walked over to see if they needed me to wade over to get their tools out of their pump house before it was more under water. They had already gotten them.
I assume your area is in the mid-southern Willamette Valley, where Eugene got 1.5" of rain the other day. Salem and north only got a seasonally average rain for the date.
