Where can I purchase grape rootstock online?
I found a delicious old forgotten grape vine (unknown variety) in a yard. I took cuttings for rooting but I would also like to try grafting it onto rootstock. I’m in zone 6b WV. I plan to plant it in my yard. What rootstock would you recommend?
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Those are huge berries on a Concord-like vine, so my best guess is it could be ‘Campbell Early’, aka ‘Island Belle’. Just about all labrusca/vinifera hybrids will be easy to root, so not sure why you want to graft it. You should be able to just stick several dormant cuttings directly in the ground and get something going.
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Thank you i have some cuttings from it rooting. Ive never grown grapes i wasn’t sure if they had rootstocks with Improved disease resistance
The only “disease” that rootstocks typically help with is phylloxera, which is really a pest and not a disease, but your vine is obviously resistant. The rootstock doesn’t provide anything else, other than possibly altering ripening times and vigor. Self rooted vines with buried buds can also grow back fast in case the vine is killed back for some reason, so you don’t lose it.
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Oh ok thank you
@Fishinjunky, if you are still interested in purchasing grapevine rootstock, I ordered from this company many years ago for that exact reason.
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Best to simply take dormant 1 year old cuttings with a minimum of 3 nodes. Dip the base end in rooting hormone and prepare a well drained but water retentive soil bed in all day sun exposure. Keep only 1 the top bud above ground and water in well. By next fall they should be well rooted. About a 90% success rate, hard to mess up!
Dennis
Kent, wa
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You could also just go to the woods and grab a rooted section of a wild vine to graft to (with landowner permission of course).
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Cool. I never even considered grape rootstock. I root a fair amounts of a nice wild fox grapes and early domesticed members of the same family from old estates.