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Halifax, Nova Scotia

Both of my plants (757.5 and 788.6) are throwing vines like crazy. Not secondaries, just additional main vines. Both plants are about 6 or 7 feet long on the longest vines, with a couple vines on each plant about a foot behind. It's getting pretty messy trying to get all of this growth under control and moving away from each other. On top of that, the longest main on the 757.5 recently split (about 4 inches along the length of the vine) where a large leaf and secondary were coming off. This is right behind where a second main was growing, near the stump. The question is, should I be trimming all of these smaller "main" vines to push growth to the healthiest vines I have, or should I let them all grow out and try to keep them seperated and pruned as best I can. As for the split vine, the secondary and leaf have been cut off and the split sealed up as best I could and dusted with sulphur, even though it's the largest vine with the most foliage, should this vine be cut to push more growth into another vine, knowing I'd be taking almost half the plant with it?

7/4/2005 8:22:00 AM

Rexburg, Idaho

Those are secondary vines! The first couple of secondaries can be trained to go in different directions as in a double christmas tree pattern. But there is only one true main vine. They all look the same it just depends on there point of orgin. Growing a double christmas tree is fine but trying to treat more then two vines as "main" vines quickly becomes a mess.

7/4/2005 10:51:11 AM

Halifax, Nova Scotia

OK, now I'm just confused. I need to take pictures obviously. But I can live with having a normal plant with secondaries that are a complete pain to train if that's what they are.

7/4/2005 11:21:00 AM

Minnesota([email protected])

I have one plant that was putting out it's first secondaries quite close to the crown. I ended up pruning off the the first two sets of secondaries on each side.
I was thinking what Brian was. I'd train one as the main, and train the others as secondaries. You may want to prune off some of the secondaries closest to the crown.
Regarding that split mainvine, I don't know what to say. It may heal up just fine. If you could post pics, that would help. Doug

7/4/2005 1:20:51 PM

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Pics are posted. I think I had flatvines that split into seperate vines on both plants. Regardless, I'm letting them all grow out, we'll see what happens.

7/4/2005 10:15:00 PM