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Tuesday, June 12, 2018 Matt D. Connecticut

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South 2326 Holland ’17 (F: 2145.5 McMullen ’15 x 2261.5 Wallace ’16)

Even though this was a back-up plant to my originally intended squash I am happy with its performance.

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= 236 square feet

Main Vine Length= 21 feet
 



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