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Monday, September 21, 2015
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Pumpking
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Germany
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Entry 43 of 52 |
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Today I picked my pumpkins, but before I got them off the patch I decided to take some pics of their stem ends. I like pumpkins with a main vine growing for good, and therefore I create an S-curve in the vine, which allows the growing fruit to lift the vine as the fruit grows without picking itself (basically ripping itself) off the vine. Hereīs my 1495 Stelts fruit, thanks to the flexible main vine it was easy to create a U-turn rather than just an S-curve. Now you can see that the fruit has lifted the vine to some extent which made it necessary to cut one of the tap roots between stump and pumpkin and two tap roots in the other direction. Not too much loss of tap roots :-)
Also, there was enough room for the secondary out of the pumpkinīs leaf node and I kept it all the time (sorry, I had removed the secondaries before taking the pics).
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