Governmental agents have leaked a report of a widespread, ongoing investigation of Paradise Palm Co. Nursery and Willis Orchard Nursery, and that the owner of Willis Orchards has panicked to rush to sell out his company and to flee the United States. This result of this online information has been published at (www.buybusiness.com/Businesses/13803/Multi-Million-Dollar-Mail-Order-Nursery-for-Sale-Top-Nationally-Recognized-Company) Authorities claim that Paradise Palm Co. was formally a website operated under the Internet address, www.paradisepalmco.com owned by Jason Willis, who also owns www.willisorchards.com, and the closed down company, Paradise Palm Co. has been forced off the INTERNET due to illegal activities. Rumors fly, that the U.S.D.A, recently fined Willis Orchard Co. for illegally shipping infected citrus into Texas and other States. Jason Willis was forced to destroy all his on site diseased citrus trees and then to "Cease and Desist" the selling of citrus on the www.willisorchards.com website. A garden watchdog website, is reporting that Willis Orchard Nursery has compiled more negative complaints that positives, and the B.B.B. after three years is still showing an 'F' rating for www.willisorchards.com, a rating that is so bad. that you cannot even bring up the name Willis Orchards unless you type in the now defunct company, Paradise Palm Co in Moultrie, Georgia. It is unclear. whether or not, the greatly indebted and empty pockets of former suppliers of Willis Orchards will seek a Court intervention to block the sale of Willis Orchards, before the owner, Jason Willis, has a chance to flee the United States and pursue his other interests in a foreign county. Website investigators have advised present and past customers of Willis Orchards and Paradise Palm Co. to complain to the following agencies, if they have any complaints against the Willis Orchards complex, or if the customers are owed free replacements resulting from dead or infected plants. Tommy Irvin Georgia State Agriculture Commissioner: Email- tommy.irvin@agr.georgia.gov Phone- 1-800-282-5852 Georgia Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs: Office of the Attorney General of Georgia Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General 40 Capitol Square, SW Atlanta, GA 30334 Call 404-651-8600 or Toll Free 1-800-869-1123 Website: http://consumer.georgia.gov/00/channel_title/0,2094,5426814_39102589,00.html Georgia BBB: 500 12th Street Columbus GA 31901 Phone- (706)324-0712 Email- info@columbus-ga.bbb.org Website- http://columbusga.bbb.org For protection you can file charge backs with your credit card company also.

Kiwinut, Thanks for your response. I did not see the frass tubes. There were just the small holes outlined with the pinkish/orangish jelly like substance. I cut the vines up today and also dug the trunks out of the ground looking for other evidence that may have contributed to their death. I found that there were certain borers that attack the roots, but the roots looked normal. I did more research and found there were a group of borers that attacked stressed trees that had a moisture content less than a certain percentage, in other words the tree was already in decline before the borer attacked. I thought that perhaps the dry spring last year followed by the wet fall, then the very cold over Easter may have killed them. By all accounts, Muscadines should grow here. The Easter weekend low here was 27 degrees, I did not lose any apricots or peaches. But, they had already set fruit, whereas; the muscadines were still dormant. I know they were live when I pruned late winter because they bled, and continued to for a long time as they often did.

I believe most grapes are pruned in late Fall after the fruits are done ripening, but if you're not trying to get fruit this year you can prune any time you want. Perhaps you should consider binding the vines to the wire so they won't fall off. Just be sure to use something that will not cut into the vines as they get bigger.

You've chosen one of the most common and successful forms of asexual propagation called layering. It occurs in nature and is soooo easy to copy according to our own terms. Come spring, you should be able to sever the new plantlet from the mother plant. Yes, it will be a fruit producing vine. Don't be tempted to pull up your runner to check on progress. As a matter of fact, you should secure it in some fashion so that it doesn't come 'undone'. Also, your buckets of rich, black soil need to be watched so that they don't become waterlogged and soggy. Even the best garden soil can turn into something 'different' when put into the confines of a container. Hopefully, you put drainage holes in the buckets.