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Saturday, May 30, 2009
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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time for the real work to begin. it is dedication time. pruned my first tertiary today and have got the first 2 sets of secondaries trained in their right direction on all 3 plants. this took some careful manuevering with one secondary on the 1185 that was at a slight twist point early in the main vine growth. i gently lifted the main after digging out some clearence and redirected the secondary to the right side of the plant as it was growing under the main to the wrong side. it was either redirect it or prune it to avoid major stress build up at this junction as both the main and this secondary gets larger. training the first 2 sets of secondaries is harder than the main some times as some of them now have to be turned to make the bend. this requires letting them grow out longer first then using multiple bamboo strakes without any one stake applying too much pressure to avoid causing it to fold, kink, and sometimes split. tomorrow night after spraying demand cs i will begin burying the main vine at leaf junctions only along with bio endo mych added. so far i have been mounding up soil around the sides of the mains at leaf junctions to promote good tap root anchorage, but didn't want to bury the vines until i got a spray of demand cs on them. and with possible severe storms coming on monday, all plants will need to be secured with a little dirt over the vines and more bamboo added at large leaf stalks. i will support the plants at major leaf stalks to prevent the plants from rolling over at this stage, which is very easy for them to do with huge leaves, running down the main with little to any tap root anchorage. all it takes is a good rain followed by some strong winds and boom...plants goes boom and rolls over. so tomorrow all silt fence wind breaks will be repositioned and brought closer to the plants. i will be happy when more tap roots anchor down and more secondaries develop to get the plants stable for future storms.
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