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Sunday, April 26, 2009
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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here is the doubled up greenhouse with the 1161s in the back and going to grow to the right and the 1385 (second one in) and the 1147 (closest to me taking the pic) growing to the left. instead of growing directly back to back, i go a staggered side by side like this to create more space for the main vines to run. the 1161 on the far side looks to be the early favorite of the 2 and was planted at the far end on purpose and the 1385 was positioned 2 spots away from it to give a total of 6+ feet between the 2 competing root systems. this doesn't give me much room to keep the greenhouse up when doubled up this way. the greenhouses come off when the mains lay down or the temps tell me it is time to remove them earlier and put up the silt fence wind breaks. but i used this system last year with great success on my 1041 mckie and 1446 werner plants, and one less greenhouse to manage wind flow and temps is easier then stacking up 2 greenhouses side by side for each individual plant in my patch lay out. even if i turned the greenhouse and did plant the plants back to back more towards the center of the greenhouse, at a 5' space between the plants, they would still only get about 2.5'-3' mains before running out of room. trial and error from past seasons and my somewhat limited space for my mains to run before hitting sidewalk or fence (22') helped me create this system. i actually turn my mains in advance of the restrictions and curve them to give me more chances to pollinate on the main if needed.
the difference is 35' of width for the plants (16' secondaries and space for walking boards on the edges and 22' main length room as opposed to a long 35' main space with only room for 10' to 11' secondaries. i have had better success with secondaries at 15' than i have with them limited to 10' or 11'.
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