Offshoot

Synonym for Absenker; see there.

Designation for the propagation result of vine (or other plants) and/or for the required previously buried shoots. Locally different designations are bending, cuttings, layering, fresh shoots, dog, marble, newcomer, nicking, and tail vine. This ancient method was already described by the Roman wine author Columella (1st century AD). Before the phylloxera plague, this was a commonly practiced form of Vegetative propagation of vines, especially in dry locations.

Layering - 2 Graphics - Vine and Tree

In this method, a long shoot of a vine is lowered...

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