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Wednesday, July 16, 2014
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Pumpking
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Germany
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Today I created an S-curve for my keeper on the 854 Frei plant, and I decided to take some additional pics which help explain the procedure. In this one and the following 3 pics the color code is always the same. Now let�s start: Some days ago (as soon as I had the impression that the pollination was successful) I had placed a stick of wood and a piece of a plastic pipe at the 3rd leaf node before the fruit (where the red arrow points). On a warm afternoon I then moved the vine for the fruit to rest at the current position. (In the interim the leaf nodes between the red arrow position and the fruit position could develop their tap roots, because I won�t disturb them again.)
Today I bent the vine (which is already 6 ft beyond the fruit) around the same setup of a piece of plastic tube at the fruit leaf node (blue arrow) backwards. Again, it was a warm afternoon, the vine was very flexible. Four leaf nodes down the vine (usually it�s three leaf nodes because of their usually alternating directionality, but in my case I had to go four nodes down the vine) I placed a piece of plastic tube and a stick of wood at the leaf node where the yellow arrow points at.
The green line shows the extrapolated idealized straight line the main vine would have made without the curve.
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