Grape vine cutting
Grape vine cutting is a small vine plant, generated from a portion of the shoot of the mother plant generally about 25-30 cm long and 6-14 mm thick.
It derives its bizarre name from the thick primary roots, emitted from the foot during rooting in the open field, called ‘beard’.
After 1850, with the advent of phylloxera, an American pathogenic insect that caused the death of almost all vines on our continent, attacking and destroying their root system, it was necessary to graft European vines onto resistant American rootstocks; this allowed the repopulation of vines in Europe. This process is still indispensable today.
The use of BioAksxter® plant fertiliser preserves the continuity of the life processes during the storage and processing of plant material and provides the energy required for a perfectly welded graft and a homogenous callus, thus minimising disaffinity waste.
