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ErnieCopp
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My project today is propagating more raspberry plants. I am moving mine away from the chainlink fence to a wire trellis, want more plants, and too late to root cuttings. So, i am filling 12" nursery pots half full of potting soil and bending canes down in the pot after cutting off the leaves where the bend will be. Then i fill the pot with soil and tamp it down. I expect to have a good strong plant for the trellis along with the ones i dig and transplant.
I did the same thing earlier with grapes, and i cut the mother vine a couple of weeks ago, and the scion is doing fine. I am leaving the mother vines on the other ones as i do not know yet whether cutting will help the root development of slow it down.
Always something to think about that we are not sure of.
I also tackled a big job yesterday, removing Blackberry vines. These are not the common brambles. My neighbor had these huge vines, canes as big as my thumb standing up perfectly straight, eight feet tall. The crawled under the fence so i encouraged them, and built a wire trellis four feet from the fence and also put them there. But they are so vicious to work with, thorns are like harpoons and both stab and hook when you touch them. I am removing the ones along the fence, and will kill the sprouts, and keep the ones on the wire trellis as they are easier to manage.
Ernie
I did the same thing earlier with grapes, and i cut the mother vine a couple of weeks ago, and the scion is doing fine. I am leaving the mother vines on the other ones as i do not know yet whether cutting will help the root development of slow it down.
Always something to think about that we are not sure of.
I also tackled a big job yesterday, removing Blackberry vines. These are not the common brambles. My neighbor had these huge vines, canes as big as my thumb standing up perfectly straight, eight feet tall. The crawled under the fence so i encouraged them, and built a wire trellis four feet from the fence and also put them there. But they are so vicious to work with, thorns are like harpoons and both stab and hook when you touch them. I am removing the ones along the fence, and will kill the sprouts, and keep the ones on the wire trellis as they are easier to manage.
Ernie