One Acre Napa Valley - Yountville AVA Episode 5d Grafting

New Plants come out of calousing bags and are planted, then moved to the green house

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Grafting grape vines
• Napa Valley
• Grafting
• wine Cabernet
• wine Napa
• Youintville
• vineyard
• wine

[Eccobella3]

hi dave what can of plant is root stock

[oneacrewine]

Hello Eccobella3

Both the scion ( Cabernet ) and the rootstock 101-14 are of the vitis genus with in the "Plant Kingdom" Where as Cabernet is vitis vinifera the rootstock is a combination of vitis rupestris and vitis riparia. The rootstock does not produce any wine grapes, but protects the vine from harmful elements in the soil. Because they are of the same genus, they can be grafted, and grow together.

Thanks very much for watching the videos.

Dave

[wheelman10122]

Hi Dave, Really enjoy your videos and look forward to seeing your next one. It is really great to be able to see the "behind the scenes" of the start of a vineyard. Thanks again, Don

[oneacrewine]

Hi Don

Thanks very much, it was really interesting for me too. Should be back up there about he middle of March, looking for ward to seeing how much they have grown.

Thanks for watching.

Dave

[oneacrewine]

Hi Pro303

I am happy to share what I have learned, it has all been very interesting to me. Glad to hear they help.

Dave

[Pro303]

@oneacrewine Thanks Dave, you really do great work and your videos help out a lot! Can't thank you enough. 

[oneacrewine]

Hello Pro303

Thanks for the good question, I checked with Frank just to be sure. He said there is a danger of the wax getting into a thin gap in the fresh graft and adversely affecting the cambium layer connection and its development. A number of years ago they did some experiments and didn't find any real benefit to doing the waxing earlier. In fact just the opposite, so that is the reason for the waxing after the calousing.

Thanks again

Dave

[Pro303]

Hey dave, how come you don't dip them in wax right after you graft them?

[oneacrewine]

Thanks very much Tony for your message too. This is an amazing process how the vines are grafted and start to grow.

Talk to you soon,

Dave

[oneacrewine]

Hi John

Thanks very much for your message, really appreciate it. I have learned a lot of new things over the past few weeks as the grafting was done, it has been quite interesting. Can't wait to get them in the ground.

Dave