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Wednesday, January 01, 2014 Pumpking Germany

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Courtesy of IanP I can use this pic of his last year´s diary entries to show the effect of a decent S-curve. As my sketch shows, the fruit will grow in ALL DIRECTIONS, it will push the vine backwards and its stem will lift the vine. With a good S-curve this part of the vine will be lifted as an arch as the stem pushes back the vine, and with a pretty sharp S-curve the number of leaf nodes which need to get rid of their tap roots (as the fruit grows and the vine is lifted) will thus be limited to a minimum.
 



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