Ison's Nursery How to Fertilize Mature Muscadine Vines 

No kidding. I get so frustrated with all the “instructional” videos that stray from the topic. One video I watched, the guy planted his garden and put his cows out to pasture while also building a trellis.

Don, I cut back a neglected Concord and its the first time it had a decent fruit set, it was so overgrown I used an electric pruning saw on some cordons. Spur pruned it back to three cordons and its doing well, needs more work two years later. It had five cordons and I did not want to butcher the vine and cause too much stress at one time.

hmm, you CAN clone the plant from cuttings after pruning (I would say anything around 1/4" to 1/2" diameter will have the energy to put out root, but anything smaller would likely wither and die or succumb to disease before rooting. However, I don't actually advise 'cuttings' as a propagation method when you only have one or two plants, simply because of the low probability of the cutting surviving. One, you're just not going to get THAT many cuttings off a single plant or tree; and two, the amateur likely doesn't have the time, inclination or resourses (mist system etc) to achieve a decent success rate with a small amount of cuttings. The exception being possibly a fig or something. I would however advise that you perform what is called a 'layer' either air or soil. You can find several videos that explain, but my cliff notes advise.is to find a low hanging shoot (or allow several to grow long) fill containers with a few inches of soil (they can be made of anything but, darker and opaquer are better and they just need to be able to drain out excess water and be able to be otherwise watered by rain or hose. I use anything from half-gallon pots to water bottles to soda bottles, old paper cups, w/e) then back-fill/bury several inches of the plant in that soil. During the growing season, it will take around a month~ for the tip to have produced sufficient roots to sustain itself and it can then be trimmed away from the main plant (but no real rush). Short of maybe a disease or something, you should have a 99% success rate in cloning. I have used this method to clone muscadines, blackberries, sweet potatoes, beans, Gardenia Japonicas, yaupon hollies, rhododendrons, Crepe Myrtils, ligustrums and mulberry to name a few. My personal tips from experience are don't use 'green tips' if you can avoid it. With muscadines, I try to cut back to semi-lignified wood (it'll be brown, but still that season's growth.) Green shoots have very thin cellular walls and are prone to disease when buried. Shoots that are a few months old is much more hardy to be buried. And I've taken to leaving on the leaves (if I can). Most will tell you to remove them because they'll die and invite disease, but I think the leaves help to anchor the shoot in the soil. It helps to stabalize the shoot, and i've really never seen it be a problem.

Thanks..

You can buy it at the local hardware

Um, I think that guy asked "how" and "what", not "where". I could have used the answer myself. Peace@@davidcranford3445