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Tuesday, July 12, 2005
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BrianInOregon
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Eugene, OR
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Well, I woke up yesterday morning to find that I had gotten some help with vine termination. A deer was desperate enough to enter the only 2 foot gap in the 8 foot tall windbreak around the patch, walk its way through the maze of smaller windbreaks tight around the plants, and prune the tips off just about every secondary on my 961 Daletas and 1247 Handy. Of course, he/she just had to have the main vine tips also! Luckily the maze of windbreaks kept it out of the 1016 and the 695 but it's still rough to be set back like this.
I lost the female at 12 feet on the 1247 Handy but still have one main vine female on the 961 Daletas. I'm now retraining the nearest secondaries as new mains and training some tertiaries at the ends of the now terminated secondaries to keep the plants growing. So much for thinking I've covered all the bases.
Yet another lesson learned.....deer will enter a confined space if they're hungry enough! The entire patch is now completely sealed off at a height of 8 feet so if the deer want to taste another vine tip, they better sprout some wings.
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