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Re: Cantaloupe

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Neil, just to get you started...

I grow my cataloupes horizontally, here in Montreal---(best production was 4
pounds per square foot--22 'lopes on 25 square feet---highly fertile soil,
raised bed, black plastic, vermicompost for the planting area...)

These I did pinch back some.

Vertically I know you need to put slings under each fruit, say made of old
nylon stockings...

There are prolly more detailed instructions out there somewhere's, but
that's all I know...

Cantaloupes prolly call for a pretty sturdy trellis, I'd guess....

Frank---melons on trellises, is not a subject, on which he embellishes,
though pickles  on trellises, is a subject he relishes.....:-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Hubbard <nehubbard@ucdavis.edu>
To: sqft@listbot.com <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Thursday, May 27, 1999 12:07 PM
Subject: Cantaloupe


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>Hello all!
>
> I will be growing my cantaloupe vertically for the first time this
>year and was wondering whether one should trim the vine to just one leader
>or does one leave all the leaders and trim flowers to just a few per plant?
>Thanks for the help in advance.
>
>Ed
>
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