Propagating Muscadines: Soil Layering Better Than Seeds

Q: Found muscadines on the road. How to get vines from seed?

A: Propagating from seed is long and slow with spotty germination. Better: "soil layer" them. Bend vines to ground, dig shallow trench where each touches soil. Scrape limb lightly with dull knife, dust wound with rooting hormone (Rootone), cover with soil, weigh down with brick. Leave 6 inches of tip exposed. Next February, clip connection to mother plant, leave cutting to grow roots in summer. Transplant new plants in fall. More details at https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/propagating-muscadine-grapes.pdf