This research was conducted at the Agriculture Faculty, Damascus
university to determine some factors affecting rooting of some grape rootstocks
(B41, Ru140, SO4) by hardwood cutting during two subsequent seasons. The
results showed that Rooting p
ercentage ranged between 50 to 65%. with
significant differences between tested rootstocks. The highest rooting
percentage was obtained on B41 rootstock reached 65.47% followed by SO4
and then by Ru140 which gave the lowest percentage 50.44%. The treatment
with hormone IBA increased rooting proportion and all the parameters
(number and length of root, number of leaves and shoot length) were
significantly higher than parallel parameters of the control. The storage of
cuttings at 4°C for 50 days increased significantly proportion of rooting and
number of roots compared with the storage under field condition. There were
significant differences among dates of planting where the third date (mid
February) showed superiority in all parameters studied over other dates. The
cuttings from basal and middle of annual growth gave a significant superiority
in the average root length (5.26–4.32 cm, successively) compared to the
terminal cuttings while there was no significant effect to the cuttings position on
rooting proportion.
