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Queensland, Australia

Hi all,
come out this morning to water my plants and found the main on a 1042 Neuville severed (see my grower diary). All I can do is hope to grow a fruit on a secondary.
What do I do? Do I try and train the secondary closest to the break or do I take the first secondary from the stump and cut the main next to it?
Any help from your experiences would be appreciated.
My email is [email protected] (just having trouble updating it on this site).
Happy new year.
Cheers
Clinton

1/2/2007 6:26:29 PM

South Bloomfield, Ohio

Leave the main alone and pollinate on your best secondary..........closest to the stump is good. These plants have a way of "healing" themselves and making up for damage.

1/2/2007 8:54:42 PM

So. Maine

Myself I would train the closest secondary to the break in the main vine and grow on that, had pretty good luck in the past ... AL

1/2/2007 9:14:11 PM

Salineville

sorry to hear that down under and if it was me i would take the secondary closest to the break and trun it into the main. good luck jerryD

1/2/2007 9:23:20 PM

Garden State Pumpkins

I would say your six of one, a half dozen of the other...from the looks of that secondary near the stump I think it could be a great main vine...but if the main was longer I always go with the closest secondary to the break...you might of just confused this early plant into that close secondary as being the main.

1/2/2007 10:14:23 PM

Dallas, Oregon

train secondary closest to the break. this can also be used for some flat vine problems. probably a damn dingo got to it.

1/2/2007 11:16:22 PM

SF Bay Area, California

I always give it a week or so and then choose the most aggressively growing secondary which I then train as the main vine. Most the time this has been the secondary closest to the break, but I've seen the first two secondaries really take off also...

1/3/2007 12:27:34 PM

No Place Special

Same here, i would use closest secondary to the break.

1/3/2007 8:01:19 PM