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Sunday, July 26, 2009 Mike-S Dorval,Quebec

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First pollination on the 746 Snyder(city plot) today with the 563 at 8ft.Females on all secondaries have been picked off.Plant is growing nicely now(plot that grew the 563)...Culled second pollination on the 646 Story(city plot) due to a bad position.First is a shiney,volleyball size at 13 days,third a healthy,smaller fruit.Another pollination yesterday with the 563 farther down main....Main on 695 Young(country plot) growing 1-2 ft a day even with 4 pollinations at softball size....563(city plant)is at 203 OTT at 40 days.Happy with this as there is only about 60 sq ft of plant before fruit,a long main after fruit,maybe 50 sq ft.Hoping for developed rooting on main to sustain some growth.Leaves still in good shape.Cool weather may not have hurt this plant as no PM yet.Prevention usually only results in a delay for me.... 264 Strange,615 Jaser,563 Strange,801 Daigle,Wallace cross fruit are softball size(country location).All these plants ae smaller due to weather,late planting,pollinations before adequate plant size and possibly some mistakes in soil preps....786 plants(country) growing nicely,good leaf color,pollination early August....Some 264,265 snake vines are growing fast,both in the city and country.Hard to really know reason for small plant size in one country location as some plants doing well,some? The soil is not consistant amongst those plots.Either is the drainage.Maybe I have my answer...
 



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