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Cochecton, NY

Call me crazy, but I have read that you should clip off any vines growing off of your secondaries! I have not seen any and all of my plants are out to between 10 and 12 feet with a very nice christmas tree shape going. Is not having vines branch off of your secondaries a bad sign or am I lucky? I am behind on posting to my diary, hopefully I will be able to get some pics up in the next day or so. I also had a garden tool fall over on one of my secondaries earlier today. It snapped the vine about 6 inches from the end. I sprayed with a fungicide. Should I just cut it off and bury the end?

7/12/2008 4:02:44 PM

Picton,ON (j.vincent@xplornet.ca)

If you look carefully at the nodes you will likely see samll tertiary bines starting to grow out around the leaf axial. This varies a great deal between plants. I try to "rub" them out with my thumb when they are quite small, this will save you a lot of work later.

As far as your damaged vine, yup you are doing everything right. Cut and burry if really damaged.

John

7/12/2008 6:57:16 PM