Re: Aiming the vine
Randy,
I had the same thing happen to me. I called George LLoyd and he told me all
you have to do is move the vine about a half inch a day using sticks to hold
in place and in about a week you have the vine going in the right direction.
It work great for me. If your plant is young enough just hill the dirt
behind your plant and slightly lean your plant in the right direction and
your vine will grow that way also. No need to transplant or loop your main
around. If need more info just let me know, myself personally I don't think
your vine will grow opposite the first leaf, just have to train them to go
the right way. Hope this helps, mine are just getting to run in there huts,
cold tonight eh? I live in St. Catharines Ontario have the heaters on
tonight and there nice and comfortable, and training mine this year as well.
andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: Hughes-Banderob <hughes.banderob@sympatico.ca>
To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Sent: May 10, 2000 8:59 PM
Subject: Aiming the vine
> If a vine grows away from its first true leaf, then I just planted my
> Mackenzie 1010 the wrong direction on a narrow 35' patch.
>
> How accurate is this information? Can I have some input?
>
> I don't really want to curve the vine around and I also don't want to
> retransplant the seedling.
>
> Advice?
>
> Randy Banderob
> Millbrook, Ontario
>
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