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Sunday, June 12, 2016
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Matt D.
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Connecticut
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823 House ’15 est (F: 811 Gerhardt ’11 x M: 359 Foss ’13)
In this picture what you see is the size of the entire plant and the size it is going to remain for at least the next week since every possible vine tip as been chewed off by a squirrel on this plant. I was very excited to see what this plant was going to do and now I know it will not have a chance to reach its full potential given its current state.
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.
Leaf Area Estimation= 42.75 square feet
Main Vine Length= 9.5 feet
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