I HAVE A SAGO PALM FOR YOUR 2 GRAPES kIDDO

Oooohhh I would love some of these!!! I have been making homemade wine for years, and would love to try a new grape! I don't have a lot to trade right now... maybe a bottle or two of my Mississippi blue berry wine, lol??

I tried rooting some muscadine cuttings last year, and only had one out of around 20-30 cuttings take. In contrast, for grape vines, all I have to do is stick them in a deep pot, two nodes deep, and they root. Are the cuttings you're trying to root dormant or in an active growing phase? Lon Rombough, in his book "The Grape Grower", describes a muscadine rooting technique of taking green cuttings from a vigorous growing shoot on a vine. They are taken early, no later than bloom time. Cuttings are around 6" long with 2-3 nodes. Only the top leaf is left attached, (leafless cuttings don't root) and it is cut in half to reduce transpiration. Cuttings are dipped in a rooting hormone, planted in a mixture of three parts perlite and one part peat, in a mist bench with bottom heat. If a mist bench isn't available, they can be misted by hand several times a day. The cuttings are placed in a bright shady area- no full sun He advises against using a plastic covering, but says the cuttings can also be placed in a black one gallon pot, bottom heat, and covered with a plastic bag propped up with sticks, as long as the bag doesn't touch the leaves. If you scroll halfway down the page of the link below, you will see this described in great detail, with pictures. Our local hydroponics store sells rockwool cubes for rooting difficult cuttings, and I've had varied results with those, using other kinds of cuttings. Kiwinut's suggestion of grafting a few of the cuttings on established vines and layering the vines later is a great one. Good luck with it. Here is a link that might be useful: Green (softwood) cuttings

I think the best time to prune in areas with freeze danger is in spring just before or as growth begins. I think this is too early in zone 7. I'd take cuttings for rooting 2-4 weeks before growth begins. Then they may need to be buried or stored in a cool place until rooting. It depends on whether you can control temperature or are reliant on nature, they need warmth to root rapidly. I'm not an expert on rooting grapes but have done it many times. Usually by just planting them where I wanted a vine, covering until spring, and then uncovering the top bud. This works but there are ways that result in much higher % takes. The key to rooting them is getting callus formation first. This works best at warm temperature, just the right moisture level, and rooting hormone. The cutting needs to be fully turgid but not wet. Some experts callus them in moist sand. This months Good Fruit Grower has an article on rooting grape cuttings. I've never used rooting hormone so that's not essential.