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Tuesday, June 12, 2018
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Matt D.
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Connecticut
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1297.5 Young ’16 (F: 1912 Carter ’15 x 1000.5 Gansert ’11)
Right now, this plant may have a perfect blend of aggressive growth and great orange color. This is my second biggest plant in the patch and has been in the top-2 all season. I am glad that I gave this plant a shot in my patch this year as up to this point, I could not wish for any better.
While it seems the standard for comparison this time of year is main vine length, I have had plants in the past that grow a great main vine but do not ‘fill-in’, so I developed the idea of Leaf Area Estimation which is basically the area of a triangle. (This works best for the standard Christmas Tree style of pruning.) All you have to do is measure the width of the plant and the length of the main vine. Then it is simply (1/2)*(width of the plant)*(main vine length) = Leaf Area Estimation.
Leaf Area Estimation= 252 square feet
Main Vine Length= 21 feet
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