Careless pruning of grapevine

[Rob G]

Stupid, stupid me, but I wasn't carefully watching what I was doing and have cut into growing wood. As I've been warned it is leaking sap seriously.

Anyone know the solution as I understand this sap doesn't ever set.

Rob

[Scarlet]

There was another thread on this last month -
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ing_56677.html

[Nicos]

Hmmm...don't honestly know much about Vines- but I recall a friend's father ( a few decades back) used to use waterpoof wood glue.
I'm presuming 'normal' wound sealant doesn't work then????

[Nicos]

Well remembered Scarlet!!

[Scarlet]

Well remembered Scarlet!!

Ah, just because I'm interested! I have a lovely old vine and its my job for over New Year, whatever the weather. Always thought that I would get some good wine from the grapes but I'm still trying...

[selfraising]

I have to own up to having done this the year before last. It did drip for quite a while but seemed to recover eventually.

[TonyF]

Rob, just leave it, it wont do it any real harm if the plant is healthy. It will callous over (ours do this every year) and they're good, fit healthy plants.

Don't put anything on it, you have no idea how the vine will react to the foreign agent being introduced and that may kill it off.

Stay cool, the plant will look after itself under normal conditions.

[Rob G]

Just to close this off and report for anyone else finding this thread.

Many thanks to those that contributed. After about three days the dripping really ceased, but in that time some 200cc of fluid were lost. It's now 6 days since my carelessness and I took off the tightly wrapped finder stall and some self bonding tape and all was dry. I doubt really if my attempts at stemming the flow had any influence - this was predicted !

The 'twig' I cut was only some 6mm in diameter - if it had been larger no doubt the fluid flow would have been more extensive and I think a hose clip 'tourniquet' would have been required.

Rob

[TonyF]

Sorry Rob, you don't need to do anything. I live in an area where growing grapes is an everyday thing and we grow a good number here.

You don't need to put a torniquet or anything on the cut and the amount of fluid that it looses means nothing, it makes the fluid in the roots/base and will continue to do so until the cut scabs over. Please, just leave it and it WILL look after itself.

The more you do to it, the more chance it has of going wrong. Hope you dipped the bit you cut off in hormone rooting powder and stuck it in a pot - now that WOULD have been a good idea.

[mrscorpio]

I hack loads off my 3 grape vines every year, They are used for shade but do produce small fruits every year. They drip for days but always recover.
I know they are tough as I chopped one down last year purposely trying to kill it. It grew back as furiously as ever.