- Do you know what I hate?

I hate seeing the price of grapes at the grocery store.

They are so expensive and I know that I can grow them and save them and do so many things with them.

So let's learn how we can make more grape plants out of one little twig.

Three easy steps and you will be creating a new grape plant in no time.

Hey, before we begin, I gotta give my shout-out to my favorite sponsors, Merit Medical and Red Butte Garden for making videos like this possible.

Now, if you have some more forethought and you're like a real planner, unlike me, you can mark the grapevine that you love the year before that had the most production, and then that way you have the highest quality, highest yielding vine that you're gonna cut from to propagate.

Now, I don't necessarily need more grape plants because they take up a lot of space.

You really need a good bandwidth of eight to 10 feet for those laterals or the plant vines to grow.

So make sure when you're thinking about space and location, that you have the space and location for your grape, or you can give it to a friend and show 'em how cool you are because you just propagated your own grapes.

So right now it's about 48 degrees in Holladay.

Again, not quite when I wanna prune my whole wall of grapes, but I do wanna start some grapes so they're ready to be planted come April or May.

What I'm gonna look for first is some healthy vines.

You're looking for about a pencil width.

You don't want something real thick.

You don't want something real woody.

You want it kind of this light color.

Okay, so I'm gonna cut back here.

So what I'm gonna look for are the little nodes of the grapevine right here.

And I like to tend to get about three nodes.

One, the very bottom one I'm gonna cut real close to, and that's where the roots are gonna come out.

And then this is where the leaves will come out when it starts leafing out.

I'm looking for about 18, 16 to 18, even 12 inches, but really like to have at least three nodes.

So with that, look at this branch.

Let's see how many we're gonna get.

So first, this first node right here, I'm just gonna cut right below it.

That way I know this is the bottom.

This is very important.

You want to know where the bottom is.

Then I'll cut this one in the middle.

1, 2, 3, cut in the middle.

And the only reason I would cut in the middle is just so that I know which way is top.

So bottom, right next to the node, top is kind of somewhere in the middle.

So here's grape plant number one.

But if you know about pruning grapes, I could probably get least 500 plants off of this.

I don't want 500 plants, I want two or three plants.

Let's think realistic.

So here I have my stems.

I'm actually gonna cut these guys down too 'cause I wanna save some space.

Now that I know which way's top and which way's bottom.

Here's my bottom.

I know all of you just happen to have a baggie with a wet paper towel in it hanging in your pocket.

And if you do, then you can go like this.

I'm gonna open it up.

I'm gonna take my bottom, my bottom node's right here.

I'm gonna take my wet paper towel.

I'm gonna wrap it up nice and tight, and I'm gonna throw it back in my Ziploc bag, zip it up, and then I'm gonna put this in a dark place in my basement.

I'll check on it.

I have it in my laundry room in a space where I'll see it.

And about every week I'll just make sure this paper towel is wet.

In about four weeks, you'll take off the paper towel and guess what you're gonna have?

Roots, baby.

We're gonna have roots and two new grape plants without doing much work.

It's been a few months and honestly it's been longer than what it usually takes for me to root these, and it's because I cut them too early.

I started in February.

We were trying to film and get things ready to go, and we should have waited until March, but I still have roots and this guy has leaves.

Even though it one does not have roots, it still is starting to grow 'em.

You have these little white dots right here.

Those are telling you that it's generating roots right in that space.

So if I leave this a little longer, I'll get some roots out of it.

And this one just barely budding and just barely has a root, even though it's really small.

I'm gonna plant him in a pot and just watch how he grows.

So these are my two little sticks.

Now I propagated 'em and they're gonna become grapes.

So because the roots are this tiny, I would not put this directly in the ground.

I'm gonna baby it a little bit longer and make sure that it develops a little stronger rootstock.

But meanwhile, if you do have long roots, go for it.

I put 'em in the ground all the time, but this guy is just a little too teeny.

So I just have myself a pot, some nice dirt.

I'm gonna be very gentle putting it in there.

And then I'll give it some water and probably in about four weeks it'll be ready to plant.

This one I'm gonna probably stick back in the cupboard for a little longer and get those roots generating.

Hope you enjoyed this episode.

See you next time.