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Saturday, July 12, 2008
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Big Kahuna 26
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Ontario, Canada.
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Cornerstone Update > Things here are much improved from the past weeks report.
Thanks to Roy's hard work this week the plants here are all way way ahead of any traditional date benchmarks we have ever had at the yard. Since Tuesday we have moved by hand more than 20 yards of fresh compost. Placed around all of the plants for vine burring.
This mornings effort amongst the five plants took about 4 hours of trimming, burring and staking.
Another inch or so of rain this week has the plants marching for heaven. No signs of any active bug damage after last Mondays spraying.
The best fruit in the patches are
Fauna, 752* Landry 07 x 1446 Werner 06 on Day 11 = 27"
Hardy, 1385 Jutras 07 x 1446 Werner 07 on Day 9 = 24"
Fatso, 898 Knauss x 998 Jutras on Day 9 = 22"
A few more days yet for any recordable measurements on fruit from the 1134 Landry 07 and the 1446 Werner 06. The Werner plant is a bit worrisome in that I have another strong run away growing plant that is yet again failing to shift gears and grow fruit. I should hit such plants with more phos near year to force them to slow down vine growth. This plant has many many strong vines and wing back growth that is just about completed. It will all be wasted if the fruit don't stop aborting. We've lost two on the main already and now must rely on an open fruit on the main (July 11) at 18' and a couple of prospects on the sides.
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