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Monday, June 08, 2026
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TowneFamilyVT
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Vermont
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Ten days in and the 2741 Haist is doing exactly what was hoping it would do.
Earlier this season I was running two fruits simultaneously and I made the decision to cull the fruit at 17ft down the main vine. At 10 DAP my current fruit is carrying more than double the volume of the culled fruit at the same stage. The cull decision gets easier to validate every day I measure.
The focus right now is cell division. Every decision this week has been made through that lens. To help, I've been maintaining 70�F overnight in the hoop house, which directly supports mitotic rate.
On the biology side I've been misting the fruit skin directly with Kelpak, an Ecklonia maxima extract that's exceptionally high in cytokinins, specifically zeatin and zeatin riboside. These are the primary mitotic cytokinins that signal dividing cells to keep dividing. My hope is that direct skin application puts them exactly where they need to be during the peak division window. Soil drenches are running Kelpak, Triagrow (triacontanol), SP-1, Azos Red, Companion, and Mykos mycorrhizae � the goal is a biological root system to allow these genetics to grow to their potential. Roots and shoots as they say.
Fungicide and insecticide rotation has started.
The one concern is the canopy. The leaves have taken some punishment; a quarter-inch hailstorm, a light frost earlier in the season, and consistent wind exposure. They're showing age earlier than I'd like. The photosynthetic factory needs to stay productive through at least DAP 60 to hit the numbers I'm targeting. Foliar with silica and Aluminet shade cloth goes up this week to reduce thermal and mechanical stress and extend leaf longevity.
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