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Friday, July 07, 2017
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Princeton Joe
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Princeton Kentucky
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The 2009 Wallace plant this morning. It is big and I've grown it in a F-15 jet sweptback wing pattern to get longer side vines of 18'. In the back is my 2 146.5 melon plants by the way they have been grafted together at the biggest 2 mains and go down into 1 main in hopes of pollinating a nice melon on that single main being backed by 2 plant systems. The 6" linear graft has taken. After cutting I clamped the two together used super glue on the outside (like your doctor puts on a cut) and then wrapped with grafting tape to prevent air entry. I'm also training 2 other center vines to come around, meet each other and they too will be grafted. They are not dead head grafted but rather very long cleft grafted and after I see they have taken I terminate the outside vine too be terminated leaving 1 main vine. I kept the plants very wet for 3 days following the grafting and it was very humid out to begin with. I had been itching to try, lets call it late term grafting on melon plants wondering if it could be done. A couple years ago I successfully grafted a melon tip on a field pumpkin side vine so I knew pretty much this would work if done carefully with exact sizing on the vines. Should be interesting.
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