Vine Grafting

Paul - This should be possible. Are you grafting the vinifera wood on existing rooted vines or on Chambourcin cuttings? If the latter are the Chambourcin cutting already rooted? Regardless you can buy grafting materials from A.M. Leonard. Check out this site

I should mention that I took a course on grapevine grafting a couple of years ago. I attempted grafting Vignoles onto old Leon Millot roots. Using the cleft graft method only 4 or 48 grafts took. Not a good success rate and most likely due to my lack of experience and poor technique.

Bill Frazier Olathe, Kansas

Paul E. Lehmann wrote "is it possible to graft Merlot or Cabernet Franc cuttings on

Thanks Bill, The Chambourcin are just cuttings and not rooted. Perhaps I should just go ahead and root some of them in pots and next year use them as root stock for the vinifera. I have already ordered replacement vines for this spring but I thought I would try my hand at doing my own grafting just for the fun of it. If I have a low degree of sucess, that will probably be allright because (hopefully) I will not loose a lot of established vines every year. I had some loss the last couple years because of trees blocking sunlight - especially in the morning - which resulted in real bad fungus problems, poor vine growth and eventually death only in that part of my backyard vineyard. My wife has now given me permission to cut down a couple trees so conditions should improve.

Hi I am attempting something similar to this older post. Own rooted Chambourcin has shown good phylloxera resistance in my home vineyard over the past 7 years and I am attempting to graft red vinifera varieties onto Chambourcin and wild riparia cuttings. Am I wasting my time or has anyone else had success attempting this?