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San Luis Obispo Ca

Secondaries, is what ever starts to grow other then the main vine right? If this is correct, I let them grow a bit and then cover them with dirt for root growth. Sometimes I even cut them off the plant so as to redirect growth to main. I cut "secondaries" also to manage my grow area, by doing this I eliminate over-laping vines. Am I managing my plant's for the best, or hurting my grow.?

6/10/2005 3:39:11 PM

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A secondary vine is any vine growing off the main (Primary vine). Don't bury them too soon or too deep. Whatever growth comes from a secondary vine is called a tertiary (say turch-e-airy) vine & should be removed unless you need to fill in an otherwise unproductive bare spot in the patch.

6/10/2005 9:20:16 PM

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Tremor, just a thought here, please help. Why would you need to fill in an unproductive bare spot when you are cutting off some secondaries anyway? Thanks.

6/11/2005 7:26:31 AM

Rhode Island

if you lost a couple of sides by nature or accident you could run a third stage vine into the area for addition feeding of the main and pumpkin

6/11/2005 1:02:11 PM

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Powdery Mildew ran rampant in the Northeast last year starting as early as RIGHT NOW exactly 365 days ago. We lost most of our oldest leaves. By August the entire main was open to the sun & weeds were growing in places no sane grower wants to crawl with or withour boards or pruned secondary vines. So we "back trained" some tertiary vines into the canopy-void.

Do the newer, fresh green leaves help the fruit? I don't know. But I felt better & the competing weeds stopped growing as the shade overcame them.

I doubt that "back-training" tertiaries causes any real harm.

6/11/2005 1:53:30 PM