Blind vine

A term (also known as blind wood) for an annual shoot of the vine that is cut and shortened for the purpose of vegetative propagation. The name is derived from the unrooted shoot. The shoot, shortened to three or four nodes, is placed in the soil in such a way that the nodes are completely covered with soil and only the outermost node protrudes about two centimetres from the soil. New roots develop from the lower, soil-covered nodes and a new vine grows from the upper, light-exposed eye (bud) in the leaf axil. This was the usual way of replacing individual vines or planting new vineyards, in addition to lowering them until the phylloxera catastrophe.

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