Re: this early?
Rocky,
Here's my theory/guess. When your friend had the plant in his green house,
did he use artificial lighting. If so, then I suspect the 'artificial day
length' was long enough to signal flowering, even though the plant is
immature.
My first thought is to cover the female flowers to prevent pollination, and
give the plant time to readjust to the 'natural day length'. (could be 30
days or more?? I'm not sure)
Greg Schraiber
Rocky Rockwell wrote:
> I just got off the phone with a fellow PGPGA member who lives in Rome
> Pennsylvania, and he was all concerned about his freak of nature (as he
> said it). He has a six ft vine, and every leaf junction he has a
> blossom, but the strnage part is this, all of them are female already,
> and no males.. My first instinct was to say WOW u have a six ft plant
> already? But Leonard started his plant (it is a Wallace 720 EST) in the
> middle of April, and had it in a green house until May 6th, when he went
> outside with it.. My suggestion was to not worry about the first two or
> three, but concentrate on the ones getting farther out, maybe the last
> two that are at 5 and 6 ft.. This is kind of suicidal I told him, the
> plant would kill itself if you set it inside 10 ft, but I also wouldnt
> cull them off just yet, as some plants could become stingy and not give
> him any more main vine females..
> What would people on this list do witha six ft vine, with 5 females
> attached to it, and no males in sight at his place, or my place, or
> anywhere else for that matter for atleast 3 weeks?
>
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