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Nikiski Alaska

I am now one of the snapped main club how it hapend is as strange as what has hapend in the last two days on sunday i had a bird get in my green house witch is a feet in its self as i was trying to let it out of a windo it landed on the tip of the main and snapped it about 18" back almost in two so what i have did is work it in a loop so that it heals and keeps growing so far so good i have hade new groth for the last 2 or 3 days :)

7/7/2005 5:37:06 PM

Utah

welcome to the club ... i think 80% of us here on BP are members.
at least you have a good story behind yours - most of ours aren't very good ... like ... "I'm so stupid. I was trying to reposition the vine and snap !"
good luck with it.
gordon

7/7/2005 5:46:38 PM

Sparta, NC

I'm in the " I'm so stupid club " LOL

7/7/2005 6:39:55 PM

Cologne / Germany

I´m in...I was not stupid...it just happened. Too much rain, too cold. The main just decided to terminate itself. Right at the point with a nice female that was almost ready to be a keeper around 12 ft :)

7/7/2005 6:55:48 PM

Midwest

OK. I'm in the club TOO! Trying to clear some branches next to the patch and one fell on the vine AM I THIS STUPID? YES! 8in. from the tip and just a little bitty branch too! Docgipe advice well taken maybe a new forum... 'broken vine management'?
Greg

7/8/2005 11:49:01 AM

Belgium Europe

Same as floh here main of of my own 917ghaye and 1458whitthier terminated themselves.582hester broke itself cause it's tendrils were attached to a bambo-stick.My plants grow 'tips in the air', and an accident with a bird, rain,or something dropped on it, or tendrills happens easily in that case i think.I'm supporting the main vine tips of my remaining plants with bambo-sticks now,and check them twice a day.If you lose a main vine earlyier in the season,you can train a secondary,but if it happens just at fruitsetting time,it's a serious problem.Even if you have a fruit set...
jos

jos

7/8/2005 1:55:43 PM

Butler, Ohio

Count me in too. My 475 Barrett snapped its tip right off last week about 13 foot out. A secondary has come right up and taken over the job though.

7/8/2005 10:19:08 PM

Joliet, IL

i have tried adjusting a vine 3 years ago in the dark after coming homing at night drunk as a skunk and thought an s curve seemed like the right thing to do at the time.

i have had mother nature grow them straight up and over on calm days with no reason but their own weight and rapid growth.

i have had wind do it twice ths year.

stupid is as stupid does and Mother Nature has a cruel sense of humor. i couldn't tell you how many secondaries i have snapped in the morning adjusing vines. that is why i never adjust the main vine last of all to see how my secondaries react as a pretest to the rigidity or pliability of the plants.

you are definately not alone.

7/8/2005 11:07:36 PM