Re: vine burial
- Subject: Re: vine burial
- From: v* <a*@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:04:20 -0700 (PDT)
When terminating a vine or pinching off a teriary, I usually do
not bury the ends but leave them to dry in the air to reduce
the chance of causing the severed end to rot. They will air
dry in a few days and I've never had a problem. I usually
pinch off teriaries when they are very small which leaves a
very minor injury. When I terminate larger secondaries, I
always cut right at the far edge of a leaf juction so as not
to leave a long hollow tube of vine. The hollow part narrows
right at a leaf junction.
I don't believe burying the ends of the vines provides any
benefit and could cause rot problems.
vince
--- Bridgette Antoinette Tojek <honeybempowered@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thanks for that info- I will carefully evaluate what I have
> been
> feeding the plant and try to decide what went wrong. I also
> do not
> know what it means to pinch the vine. Is this simply bending
> the end
> and then burying it? Kind of clamping the end of the vine? I
> just
> worry about leaving an opening/ gap for bacteria and such.
> But I need
> to do this as soon as possible but am reluctant to do so
> without a
> response from the experts. I am sure it seems simple enough
> to most but to me it seems as if I am missing something.
> Sorry
> Bridgette
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