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Pruning - Culling

Okay let's assume I've done everything right up to transplanting a healthy
three leaf plant into a large cloche. Now with continued luck and nurturing
I start to get a large disease free plant filling the cloche in all
directions during plant growth phase.

Should I assume that mother nature will concentrate her efforts into one
main vine in this phase or should I begin early pruning/training to help
establish one main vine that will eventually be the fruit bearer? I suspect
that it may be best to leave mother nature alone in this phase and let the
plant grow more or less equally in all directions giving a somewhat circular
hill of leaves.

Okay now it's early July and the Gods have continued to smile upon me with
three wonderfully set fruit each ten feet out on a main vine from this same
plant. I watch carefully seeing who will volunteer for sacrifice to the
great pumpkin patch compost pile and who will be new ruler. With knife in
hand I approach the volunteers and slice them off. Do I take their
respective vines with them leaving only one main vine with it's secondary
and tertiaries to feed the new anointed one? Or should I leave 8-9 feet of
these other vines out there to feed the main plant? Of course I will keep
all of the little princes and princesses in check.

Ciao, John
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