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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
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Iowegian
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Anamosa, IA [email protected]
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We are getting near the end of pollination time. Most plants have at least 2 fruit pollinated, but the 547 is falling way behind. All but one flower has been 4 lobes this year. We are letting a few secondary flowers open pollinate as backups, but they will come off if we get something good going on the main vine.
Last week the weather was great: upper 70's sunny, low humidity. This week it is low 80's very high humidity and frequent rains. This is turning into a very wet year, again. It looks like I need to give them another shot of Alliette as conditions are right for root problems to start in.
I have already started terminating some secondary vines where plants are trying to grow into each other. It seems that every plant grew the main about 40 degrees off from where I wanted them to go, and they headed for each other. But thye are much bigger than in past years and will have the whole patch filled in just a couple weeks. If we don't get flooded, the deer and ground hogs stay away, and disease problems don't show up, we could have a very special year
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