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Thursday, May 06, 2021
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big moon
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Bethlehem CT
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Some 'Harvest Moon' grafts on Strongback rootstock. I have struggled with the grafts this year. Many of them wilted and looked like crap for about a week and then have come out of it. The melons pictured are on Strongback rootstock. The Strongback takes a little longer to root for me than the squash or even the bushel gourd.(I cut the roots off the rootstock when making the graft, they then have to grow new roots off of the hypocotyl) The ones in the picture are just starting to form roots which usually means that the grafts are healed or nearly healed. Once the Strongback has a decent amount of roots I will lift the plant out of the mist bed and pot it up. The Strongback makes an ideal grafting partner to the smaller seedless melons as the seedlings are so tiny which matches up well with the smaller strongback seedlings.
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