Vine cuttings

[bobleponge]

Advice please?
I am about to send some cuttings from my vines to the UK. A quick email home tells me there has been no frost this year where I live as yet.
I'm not home for another 10 days but a look at the 12 day forecast also shows no frosts due.
Should I take the cuttings on my arrival home, or wait until the new year when things start to get warmer?

Homesick in Sudan

[Adrastea]

As it's best to prune vines in winter anyway, you can take hardwood cuttings throughout the winter from your prunings! In my experience, they tend to be more successful when they've a few buds on them. I think you can take cuttings all year round, but I'm not sure of the methods used?

If you were going to send some cuttings to the UK? Don't know if I've understood your post correctly! They might be a bit big, so you could send some smaller cuttings with just one bud on them. but they might not root as well. Just put them in a frost-free place, preferrably with bottom heat. Hope that helps

[bobleponge]

Thats great, thanks. Looks they will be heading north then once I get home.

Homesick in Sudan

[realfood]

I take cuttings from my vines in the Winter when they are dormant. Put them directly into potting compost and they nearly all take.

[Adrastea]

Thing is...where to put all the new vines?!