Most of the time they are done during the winter months when the plants are dormant. Cuttings taken in the late fall and winter are known as hardwood cuttings because just as it sounds, the wood is much harder during the fall and winter than it is during the growing season. Unlike most cuttings, grape cuttings have to be really long because the buds are so far apart. The grape cutting that I am holding in this video is 18″ long and it has to be that long because even at that length it only has t