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Ontario

I have never snapped a secondary vine off until tonite I work 11 hour days and get home around 5:30 so any vine or fruit moving I do as soon as I get home and today was a nice sunny warm day, I have a plant that it's secondary vines are growing big around and pointing straight up I made a nitrogen mistake last year so this year the only nitrogen I have given this plant is from the winter wheat cover crop or the 2 lite drenches it has got of fish and some kelp, the secondaries are all bamboo steaked and I move them everyday , it's a great looking plant and the set I have is growing well , could it just be the genetics? I'm real worried now to move the vines or does anyone have a better way?

7/15/2019 9:26:14 PM

Grittyville, WA

Are you staking them up or staking them down? I would think letting them lay down on their own would make it a less sudden adjustment. Do you stake them down? I see the most sense in it as a precaution against the wind throwing the vine over, rather than in helping support the vine. Either way... even the best methods have an oops factor.

7/16/2019 3:31:55 AM

Central Illinois

If its the last 18" or so that is lifted off the ground I would leave them alone,if the tip curls downward I wouldnt worry

7/16/2019 8:10:48 AM

Ontario

Thanks baitman that is what they are doing growing straight up from where I have them pinned with bamboo stakes , I was worried if I left them the wind would snap them the vines are big around and brittle . I will let them grow and see what happens

7/16/2019 8:58:11 PM