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Saturday, June 07, 2014
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Captain 97
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Stanwood, Washington
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Entry 84 of 201 |
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Here is the hopeful keeper. The plan was to put an "S" curve in the vine so that the Pumpkin could grow on the driveway and the main vine could continue growing out over the patch. However, the blossoms alternate between the left and right side of the vine at every other leaf node. This one came on the wrong side of the vine and wouldhave been growing back towards the patch so as an alternative strategy, I put a curve in the main vine 90 degrees so that it was heading straight out into the driveway and terminated the vine at the pumpkin. The secondary vine on the right side of the picture will now become the new main vine and the pumpkin will essentially be growing at the end of a short stub vine out in the driveway. I have seen other growers use this strategy before and it seems to be a good way to avoid stem stress.
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