Wilt after burying vines
Group,
Rally round and help. Here is my plight.
My plants are well along, 8 and 14 feet respectively, with the normal 18 to
24 inch leaves. They went through our recent heat wave, up to 109 degrees,
without a drooping leaf.
So, this week I started to bury vines. I made sure the ground was cool and
wet. But now the newer leaves are getting droopy, as if they were surviving a
hot afternoon. But it has not been above 85, and everything is watered well.
The old leaves further back on the plant are fine.
I noticed this last year later in the year, around late July and early August
when I was burying so many feet of vines each day that I did not get good wet
dirt on and around them. So I thought maybe the new dry ground heat did the
wilting. Now it looks like that is possibly not the case.
Any thoughts?
John in San Jose
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