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Can I Cut These From My Grapevine?


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Bare vines growing from a grapevine.What do you call these things hanging from my grapevine? Can I cut them off now or do I have to wait until the vine is dormant? This is the first year they have been this thick and this long.

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September 16, 20221 found this helpful
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I believe they are called AIR ROOTS. They really aren't needed for the plant to grow and produce grapes. They are more for anchoring to whatever they are trying to climb and grow on. They can be quite ugly, so just cut them off.

 

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September 17, 20220 found this helpful

Thank you. I think that is what I'm going to do as they sure are ugly.

 

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September 17, 20220 found this helpful
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It appears these are called 'Aerial Roots' and although weird looking can be removed without damaging your grape vines.
"Aerial rooting in grapes has been described as an indication of cold injury."

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"Grape aerial roots, in themselves, are harmless. There is no evidence suggesting that they will impact the health or fruit production of the vine. However, grape aerial roots may actually be a sign from the vine that it is stressed or that it has experienced an injury in the recent past."

Here is a link that explains what may be causing your problem.
blog-fruit-vegetable-ipm.extension.../.../creepy-but-harmless-grape-aerial...

 

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September 19, 20220 found this helpful

Thank you.

 
September 20, 20220 found this helpful
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Yes, these are aerial roots.
I found an interesting post by Eric Stafne (Mississippi State University) about aerial root formation in grapevines. grapes.extension.org/.../

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"Aerial root formation in Vitis has been documented on different grape species; however, the driving forces behind the formation of adventitious roots are not well understood.
In temperate regions, freeze injury is the most likely initiator of aerial roots, as de Klerk et al. (1999) stated that some wounding is generally necessary to induce rooting.
Freeze injury has often been associated with aerial roots in temperate vineyard locations (Takeda et al., 1982; Clark, 2001); although, environmental conditions that follow the freeze event also may play a role.
With so little documentation of aerial rooting, one may conclude that the roots have no function and have no subsequent effect on the vine after they are produced. However, at least one author (Lindley, 1855) believed that vines that produced aerial roots also produced "bad grapes" and had "poor cane development".
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Subsequent effect of aerial roots on the vine has not been shown conclusively to be detrimental."

grapes.extension.org/.../

 

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September 21, 20220 found this helpful

Thank you. These are Scuppernong grapes. We live in the North Carolina piedmont area. The winters can get down in the teens but are usually not too cold.

 

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September 15, 20221 found this helpful

This PDF may help answer your question: viticulture.unl.edu/.../Presentation%20-%20Grapes%20III.pdf

 

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September 15, 20220 found this helpful

Thanks.

 

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September 15, 20221 found this helpful

The plant needs energy to fruit. Cut them off.

 

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September 15, 20220 found this helpful

Thanks Judy but I'm thinking it's too late for that now. These grapes get ripe end of August and 1st 2 weeks in September. I picked the last ones off the vine yesterday. Best I can read, pruning the vine back is done in June and July but just a little to open it up for the fruit to get sun and air.

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We prune it in February when it is dormant. I still don't know what these long shoots are called. Looks like they would go to the ground and take root, but I don't know.

 

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