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Mt. Pleasant, MI

The other day when I was out trimming tendrils and tertiary vines, I mistakenly nipped off 3 secondaries on the main before I realized what I was doing. Have 12 secondaries before this point. Should I let a few tertiary vines grow back toward the stump on the new secondaries to fill in the space? Let the secondaries grow longer than I had planned, 16' instead of 12'? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ron

7/1/2008 12:05:21 PM

Rhode Island

under normal growing conditions we like to have 9 to ten (or more ) sets of side vines before the fruit.
if your plant is big enough before the fruit a couple missing side vines is not the end of the world.

7/2/2008 5:00:52 AM