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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
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Matt D.
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Connecticut
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1725 Harp ’09 (F: 1385 Jutras x self)
This plant did get rolled early in the season and is now just starting to recover with the secondary vines getting to a length that can be buried for increased main vine stabilization. There is a potential pollination that will be occurring in the near future, and even though the plant is smaller than I would like, but I will still make an attempt at the pollination that I can always cull later if I chose.
While it seems the standard for comparison this time of year is main vine length, I have had plants in the past that grow a great main vine but do not ‘fill-in’, so I developed the idea of Leaf Area Estimation which is basically the area of a triangle. (This works best for the standard Christmas Tree style of pruning.) All you have to do is measure the width of the plant and the length of the main vine. Then it is simply (1/2)*(width of the plant)*(main vine length) = Leaf Area Estimation.
Leaf Area Estimation= 103.5 square feet
Main Vine Length= 18 feet
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