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Thursday, June 12, 2014
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Matt D.
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Connecticut
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220.3 DeBacco ’13 “Snowball” (F: 2009 Wallace x 1725 Harp [2009 Wallace] clone)
There are many similarities to the 2009 Wallace plant that I have growing which would be expected as they are similar genetically. While this plant has also seemed to have a slow start (like the 2009 Wallace) it seems to have recovered sooner and is larger than the 2009 at this time. The main vine seems to be on an exponential growth curve and the secondary vines are trying to keep up;-) In short, I am very glad to have this plant in my patch this year.
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.
Estimated Leaf Area = 94 square feet
Main Vine Length = 15 feet
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