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Saturday, September 02, 2017
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RyanH
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Eganville, Ontario
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And here is this years plant (2066 Geddes x 1803 Hoelke). If you read earlier on this season, you'll see the Round-Up issues I had. That ended two plants and left me with this stalled plant with burned tips where I had to get a lot of third and even fourth stage growth growing to become my new secondaries. At that point I wanted to try an experiment and push all secondaries from behind the fruit, up the garden. This was after I noticed the leaf change in last years plant over head photo.
I kind of over-did it and think I'm on the far end of the spectrum regarding plant size to fruit growth. It was an awful and terrible cold wet year but I think having 17 secondaries running down the patch until mid August really stole from the fruit and never really got that sink going.
I only dead-headed the first secondary on each side off the stump, then ran all 17 secondaries from behind the fruit way down to the end of the plot. All secondaries on this plant range from very long at about 45 feet to the shortest being about 20 feet. That's a lot of root base and leaf power behind the fruit, but I need a fully grown photo like this on August 1st, not September 1st. Not sure how to pull that off.
Too bad it wasn't better circumstances to find fruit growth results. I wish I didn't Round-Up the plant which cost me over a week in stalled growth. Also the year has been awful for many growers in this area who are reporting not the best weights this season, so it's tough to read. I'm at about 1000 pounds with the 2066. It never hit 30 pounds a day all year but I guess it has been consistent. What I'm hoping this plant pattern does, is give me a very slow taper down in weight as the leaves look great BEHIND the fruit this year. Just wish it was better weather to compare numbers.
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