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Saturday, June 20, 2009
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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i lost maybe 5 leaves to the 93 degrees it reached here yesterday before the wicked storms came in. 3 small 5' rolled over secondary vines that were put back in place last night and one broken leaf and all looked good as can be this morning. branches down everywhere in the subdivision. luckily no hail and just more rain. the patch drains nice and today it got dried out from the bright 89 degree sunshiney day. i have had to stay out of the patch all week as much as possible with the 6" of rain this week alone. the only thing i did was prune secondaries and restake with bamboo as even then the walking boards were compacting the soil more than i would like in the saturated soil. lifting up perimeter walking boards show a great root network set up way outside the plants themselves, so no sense stomping them. any single tap root that was visably suspended in the air was buried. but the rest tapped in on their owns and will get buried with mych fungi tomorrow morning now that the patch is in better shape. put up 14 more mister heads around the patch today. the 5 leaves burnt yesterday fell outside of their coverage zone. i put 12" vortex fans next to the 1385 and 1161 females to keep them as cool as possible for mondays-tuesday pollinations. gonna be in low 90s so putting the fans on them now should help increase the odds a bit. the ice jugs are ready, and will be used tomorrow the day before pollinations, the day of pollinations, and 3 days after along with the fans.
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