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Knopp, Germany

I do not put 2 plants per hill. i figure it is hard enough to make a decision on what to grow, i couldn't begin to think about what to cull. instead i start some of my own seeds and leave them in their own pot as a backup.

how does everyone else handle this situation?

4/21/2004 9:37:36 AM

Montoursville, PA

Although I do not like a seed pot larger than half gallon straight side icecream containers I do plant two back ups in much larger containers. This buys me a few days in hold as well as a little bit of plant choice on early growth observation. After twenty days in the pot they are at or beyond transplanting in my opinion.

I then plant one of the backups into a ten quart bucket and let it let it vine up the apple tree beside the picnic table just for laughs and conversation. It may yeild polination flowers. It may self and grow a flying edition of the 2004 season. At some point I rip it out of the tree to avoid complete entanglement.

4/21/2004 9:49:11 AM

minnesota

This is a dilema for me as well.If things go as planned you will be wasting good seeds, with your back ups. This year,with my HTGGP vol III book I received 5 898 Knauss X open seeds and I think I will use a couple of these as backup plants. If everything goes according to plan and my primary plants survive I will try to giive them away to neighbors.

4/24/2004 3:48:33 PM

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Luckily, so far I didn’t need backups so I gave them away to friends in a pot. Traditionally - for the second year, I keep one plant from my own seed and put it on the backup patch. Jernej

4/25/2004 2:50:40 PM

In the shade - PDX, OR

I double plant per hill.

Sometimes it is difficult to make the cut but ya got to do it.

I figure that the second plant is just as established if the primary craps out.
Catch up time is limited when you have 2 plants already in the ground.

4/26/2004 1:59:13 AM

Caceres, mid west of Spain

You have to be hard if you want to survive!
At least two plants per hill. I understand for many it has to be horrible to cull a nice healthy plant, but more probabilities to not end with a flat vine plant or other problems. For me, heat will test them even in May.

4/26/2004 2:54:26 AM