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Friday, August 29, 2025
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Matt D.
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Connecticut
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2154 Sperry '23: Tertiary Growth
It seems that at this point in the season the weeds are actually tertiary vines. While the goal is to avoid walking through the plant as much as possible seeing the little "snake heads" of tertiary growth pop up here and here warrants going into the plant to remove them.
These are always longer than they originally appear and this is a sign that the plant still has extra energy to give. In a structure it can be more difficult to access all areas of the plant so there is a bit of a judgment call when to justify "going in". This often means there is more than one that needs to be removed. Odds are that this extra growth is not taking that much away from the plant/pumpkin growth, but the main goal is to have new leaves be able to fill-in areas that may have some gaps based on leaf spacing, but the main reason for removal is to ensure the sunlight is able to directly come in contact with the original leaves. Even though these are older the connection to the actual pumpkin is the most efficient.
The theory is that, older leaves while less efficient compared to a younger leaves in photosynthesis production, have a greater impact on the pumpkin growth since the travel distance to the pumpkin is less.
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