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Saturday, July 14, 2012
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Ashland, KY
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Training vines to curve- I worry about snapping the main or secondaries when I position them, so I came up with a protocol-I re-position them a small amount every day. How do I know how much the vine can take before it breaks? No idea! But what I do is grab one of tendrils by its smallest shoot (you know, the tendril bifurcates again and again into smaller shoots) and pull it, thus moving the vine, until the small tendril breaks. I designate this as the furtherst the stem can be moved. I then pull another shoot of this tendril to move the stem, and then anchor the stem by putting a weight on the tendril. My logic is this: The tendrils are used by the plant to anchor the stem. I bet that when the tendril finds an anchor point, it sends a signal to the growing stem to grow in that direction, toward the solid support. If the tendril is anchored by a weight such that it pulls the stem in a desired direction, maybe the stem will prefer to bend in that direction more naturally, thus reducing the channce of snapping. This may all be BS! But it's fun to hypothesize. I've been able to train pretty thick mains 90 degrees like this.
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