Has anyone planted either sleeping eye trees with grow tubes? Grape growers
in my neighbourhood use a clearish, blue wrap-tube (that looks like a kid's
Magic snow carpet) wrapped around the vine for the first year. Their new
grapevines grow more quickly, and the high temperatures inside the tube
I used them this year on bench grafts. Performed as expected for all
the reasons you mention, and my gut feeling is they helped growth. I
think they promote bud breakage in various places, so you have to
watch new shoot growth from rootstock and/or below where you want the
leader to develop and
