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Kenyon, Mn.

Could You Folks sum up the advice on Pruning tertiaries and the when and how of Cornmeal?

4/7/2004 10:22:55 AM

Norton, MA

Prune tertiaries when ever you see them. Don't let them grow at all. Not sure about the cornmeal. Alex.

4/7/2004 10:40:21 AM

In the shade - PDX, OR

Don't forget to use that site search feature.

The answers have already been given.....you just have to find them.

4/7/2004 5:02:07 PM

Kenyon, Mn.

Thanks gr8, thats the kind of CONFIDENT answer I was hoping for, CEIS, I have used the site search, to the point of PAIN, lots of conflicting info, I even checked out EVERYONES Diaries, And the past posts, Thats why I was hoping for confident growers to answer With definitive answers, and IDEALLY growers who have Exceeded my personal best of 375 lbs.

4/7/2004 10:10:21 PM

Midway City, California

I THINK that I read that the tertiaries should be cut off about two feet from the secondary vine and then buried.

4/7/2004 11:20:15 PM

Caceres, mid west of Spain

prune them as soon as posible. I do it every day during Jun and July. I will cut tendrils as well.

4/8/2004 2:51:36 AM

Deer Park, WI

Im gonna throw in a small wrench here...as a point to consider. If you are growing in typical x-mas tree fashion, then yes, you would trim all tertiaries. Consider this tho- when you set a fruit anywhere on your vine, it essentially ends up blocking off a certain chunk of the allotted growing space. If you draw two imaginary perpendicular lines from the main vine to the edge of the patch where the fruit is growing, you can visualize the empty space im talking about. If you wanted to maximize the growing area with foliage, then you could leave a couple tertiaries on the secondaries that flank the fruit. Make sense?

4/8/2004 9:31:18 AM

Montoursville, PA

No tertiaries.....One has to get in there on hands and knees to do to much work.

4/8/2004 11:04:44 AM

Caceres, mid west of Spain

Yep, you need a corridor to get to the monster, to cover an extra space on that area, you can move a little the secondaries of the edges in order to close a little.

4/10/2004 3:30:22 AM