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Friday, September 01, 2017
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RyanH
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Eganville, Ontario
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Here's my 1625 Gantner from last year that grew to my 1800.5. This is the same patch my 2066 is growing in this year.
When I took the overhead photo I noticed a pretty distinct change in leaf quality past the fruit. I grew a standard Christmas tree pattern with a slight forked angle forward. You can follow the vines. I couldn't notice from the ground as much, but the leaves past the pumpkin are clearly in better shape. It would be understandable for the leaves near the end of the patch to look great since they're quite young, but the first couple vines past the fruit are much better looking than the leaves just before the fruit.
As the plant grows, those vines and leaves would really only be separated by a week or so on the calendar during fast vine growth, yet I believe there is a clear pattern in hard worked leaves behind the fruit and fresh looking leaves that seem to be just sitting there relaxing and being worked as hard.
It goes back to the age old question, does the vines ahead of the fruit feed the fruit, and if so how much? There's a lot of online reading on this, but the picture sort of suggests that maybe the plumbing of the plant is more of a one way flow. Certainly the back leaves are older, but there seems to be too much age change in the leaves near the line of the fruit.
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