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I have a double vine that is about 10 feet out now. It "fixed" itself for a few feet, but now it is double again.

I have heard that you can perform surgery on these guys, so I figured I would try it before I completely terminate the main and go with a secondary.

I have tried to carefully peel back the tip of the main, but I can't tell what to clip and what to save. It also seems to get pretty tight as I dig deeper in the new growth, and I didn't want to clip the whole thing.

Anybody have a good procedure for doing this?

6/20/2007 8:11:19 PM

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Pete,

I haven't had to do this myself yet but was told it is like seperating siamese twins. You need to study the tip VERY carefully trying to envision where the true division is. Cut there with a very sharp instrument (Exacto knife?). I wastold the incision should be about an inch.

Good luck & please take pictures

If this doesn't work, is there a secondary you can train as a new main?

6/20/2007 9:45:13 PM

I have a nasty flat vine going on... my mom is going to splice it down the middle for me, (since i'm 5 hours away) and see how it grows after that... I'll post pics and results.

6/20/2007 11:15:12 PM

Colorado

unfortunately there aren't any great secondaries, but that may eventually be the way to go. It had a great back main on it, but unfortunately it was a double vine too.

6/21/2007 12:05:08 AM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Like cutting the head off a two headed snake...cut slowly across the vascular system of the one until it breaks away. Then for some reason you water the crap out of it and it fixes it self.

6/21/2007 1:43:55 PM

Pulaski Tn [email protected]

is a double vine the same as a ribbon vine??

6/23/2007 10:30:01 PM