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Machine to disbud rootstocks: Adapted electric bench grinder facilitates disbudding grape cuttings before planting and avoids later growth of suckers
Publication Information
California Agriculture 12(7):8-13.
Published July 01, 1958
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Abstract
Thorough disbudding—removal of all unwanted buds, or eyes—of a root-stock cutting before rooting it in the nursery costs far less in both money and time than removing suckers after the vine has been planted in the vineyard.