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Tuesday, June 18, 2019 Playful Orangutan Vancouver

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LESSONS: last Saturday the plastic was removed, I pruned hard, and buried vines. The lesson? Too much stress. This whole process should have been dragged out over two weeks, starting with lifting the plastic slowly. The leaves, too tall + too big, = High center of . As well as too fragile because it's been protected from the elements. About 25% has fallen over. Good thing I have not pruned the tertiaries and Promoting their growth. Fairly certain all this stress has caused the first pollination to abort. Which causes sadness and tears, but a hard heart. Open pollinated an outside secondary on the 16th, the next one on the Main with itself on the 17th, and another one on a secondary today with itself.
 



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