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BioVam and Grape Cuttings

These are one month old grape cuttings that were treated with BioVam on 7/1/98.  The pictures illustrate how much more vitality and vigor is possible after applying BioVam mycorrhiza to grape cuttings.  Great for wine grapes and table grapes.

These are month old cuttings, Lakemont variety grapes which have been inoculated with BioVam® Mycorrhiza. 

 (BioVam® treated lawn in the background.)

(Treated Plants On Left)

A white seedless - Himrod type grape.

This is what the roots look like. Out of seven cuttings only one remained a "stick."

If you are an expert on grapes, please send me your comments about the progress of these grape plants.

More pictures will be added here in the future.

(Treated Plants on Left)

Lon Rombough has given us permission to display his instructions about how to start grape cuttings.  We highly recommend that you purchase your cuttings from Lon.  He has quantities available for hobbyists and growers alike.  If you have any questions about growing grapes, Lon is the man to ask.  You will find a link to Lon's web site in the article and links to other resources you may need to purchase when starting your own cuttings.  At the bottom of Lon's article, under the link to T&J Enterprises shopping cart for BioVam purchases, you will find a link to our instructions about how to apply BioVam mycorrhiza to grape plant cuttings and rooted plants.

These are Reliance variety grape cuttings at six weeks after being inoculated with BioVam®.

This picture was taken 8/9/98.  The largest leaf is 4.5 inches wide by 5.5 inches long.

(Treated Plants on Left)

Developed by the University of Arkansas. Large clusters of round, red, seedless, medium sized berries. The skins are tender and the flesh is melting in texture, with sweet labrusca flavor.

This picture was taken 9-18-98 and is an uninoculated control group that had been in a pot two months. The variety is Reliance. Of six cuttings, only one grew. There is quite a difference between this plant and those below which are the same variety and age, but were inoculated with BioVam Mycorrhiza.

(Untreated Plants on Left)

This picture 9-18-98 is a two month old group of Reliance Variety grape cuttings which were inoculated with Mycorrhiza.  All six cuttings rooted well and had nice sized leaves on them.  They were root bound in a two gallon bucket.  When one compares these results with the control above, it becomes obvious that BioVam Mycorrhiza has a significant impact upon grape cuttings.

(Treated Plants on Left)

The above grape plants were easily separated and planted in one foot deep holes.  1.5 tsp of BioVam was applied to the roots at the time of planting.   I have also applied BioVam via six  probe holes around each plant made with a construction pry bar each spring before bud break.  I applied our Living Soil Amendment fertilizer around the grape plants twice a year... once in the spring and again in six weeks.  Microbe teas were sprayed on the soils around my grape plants every 10 days.  These plants were put in the ground in late summer and grew to be about three feet high before going dormant.  The second year, the plants grew ten to twelve feet and produced fruit and were in position to tie down cordons for the third year production.  If I had gotten these plants in the ground in the spring of the first year instead of late summer, I would have had cordons in place the second year.

Second year Reliance Vines produced double clusters and grew enough to tie down cordons for the third year production cycle.  These plants grew to be about 12 feet high by the end of the year.  

Picture taken:  06-10-2000.

The second year Himrod grapes did okay.  I left the fruit clusters on because the vines were vigorous.  They grew to be 10-12 feet by the end of the year, enough to tie down cordon's for the third year production.

Picture taken:  06-10-2000.

In the third year... nice looking clusters!  And a lot more of them.

A delicious grape, one of the finest of the seedless varieties. The clusters are large but rather loose; berries are medium size, oval, yellow and sweet.

When one sprays some Sure Grow Frost Guard and Plant Protector on these Reliance grape plants (also treated with BioVam Mycorrhiza), the grapes plump up nicely.  These are close to 3/4 inch in diameter.  

Picture taken 09-13-2001.

There's lots of Reliance grapes to eat from this "wall of grapes."  These are third year plants which have been treated with BioVam Mycorrhiza.  

Picture taken: 09-19-2001

These reliance grapes are the same as those in the above picture... taken from the other side of the row.  It should be interesting to see what the fourth year grapes look like.  We'll just have to wait and see.

Picture taken: 09-20-2001

Natural Organic Products that Work!

Our Affordable Gardening Supply Products, which we call Natures Own Growing System, include Product Brochures, BioVam Mycorrhiza, Biosol Mix 7-2-3 Organic Fertilizer, Planters II Trace Mineral Fertilizer, Yucca Extract, Microbe Tea Brewing Kits, Pre-Brewed Microbe Tea, Bio-Peat moss and mushroom compost, Zeolite, Organic White Gold Bar Soaps, Just Like Sugar Natural Sweetener, and Spider Elimination Kits (spider traps). Most of these products are used to grow high brix plants which are high in plant nutrients (mineral and vitamin) content.

People interested in these products are back yard gardeners, farmers, farm crop management, flower growers, home and garden supply companies, house plant growers, landscapers, lawn care companies, plant nursery owners, organic farming, organic gardening, urban gardeners, and those who wish to pursue container gardening methods. Those interested in bettering their diets and health use our products to grow highly nutritious foods. 

The application of these products supports agriculture soil in general but has many specific applications on this web site for arborvitae, artichokes and asparagus, apple trees, asparagus fern, black leaf fungus on quaking aspen trees, bulbs and flowers, cactus, celery, chard, chrysanthemum, citrus trees, cotton, cosmos, cucumbers, eggplants, fairy rings in lawns, frost protection on Asian pear fruit trees, garlic, growing fruit trees, herbs, lettuce, maple trees, melons, necrotic ring spots in lawns, onions, pansy, peas, pears, promotion of earthworms in the soils, potatoes, pumpkins, raspberries, radishes, red hot chili peppers, rose plants, turf grass management of blue grass and all other kinds of grasses, spinach, stone fruit, strawberries, sugar cane, tomatoes, wine grape, vine and vineyard management, zucchini and squash of all kinds, many different vegetables and several thousand other specific plants - virtually everything grown on farms and in gardens aimed at plant and root enhancement. Numerous pictures are present in a variety of exhibits.

Contained in these products are soil life forms that are often found in some compost tea brewing kits but are much more effective in our BioVam Mycorrhiza product and our Microbe Tea Brewing kits. Organisms like, mycorrhiza fungi (endomycorrhiza fungi and ectomycorrhiza fungi), nitrogen fixing bacteria, phosphorous solubalizing bacteria, and bacteria that out compete plant pathogens are found in our BioVam product. Nitrogen fixing bacteria, cellulose eating trichoderma fungi, and many beneficial soil organisms are found in our Microbe Tea Brewing Kits.