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Friday, July 15, 2005
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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i have tried to keep all tertiaries in check on both 885 plants, but it is those pesky guadraries and pentararies, if those are words, that come from pop up tertiaries that were somehow missed in pruning and then snipped at the tops when they show. but then there are some of their own side vines down low that i missed by just snipping off their tops. this is also why it was a must to get the systemic fungicide in the plant with even more reduced air flow. so the patch that once looked completely in control is looking a little helter skelter. that is ok. more damage would be done trying to get in there and remove some longer tertiary vines that have already crossed my secondaries and have become intertwined with them. i would be snapping and rolling some leaves in the process for sure. so all i can do is continue to deadhead them when i see them pop up and try better to get any new growing ones in order early. on the other hand, if i can keep the diseases away i should have plenty of new leaves to replace the old ones that will now last 60 more days and might extend the growing season longer. this is my way of rationalizing my lack of effort to diligently keep track of all tertiaries through out the season. lol. next year i will not let my plants get out of control and i will make sure to put a walking board between every secondary vine and leave it in place the whole growing season.
i have one tall corn that is at 10' already with ears forming and tassling occurring and the shortest stockiest 10' tall sunflower has a 8" head that opened about 6 days ago or so and the other tall ones are about 13' tall and their heads just flowered open and showed yellow today. got big zac tomatoes forming and culled a few in bad places and have some nice little ones growing that are about racquetball size.
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