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Minneapolis, MN

Seriously explosive... I've buried all my secondaries and up until 5 days ago hadn't been having any issues keeping the tertiaries at bay (a couple here and there would pop up, but that's it).

I then went away for the weekend... and I come back to see about 8 otherwise-normal nodes have just EXPLODED with growth... like 8 vines, 4 flowers, 15 leaves, etc... all from the exact same node. It's so many the node itself lifts up off the ground, is the size of a small softball...

What the heck is going on at these sites?

8/4/2010 1:14:20 PM

Farmville, Virginia ([email protected])

If you don't pinch off the tertiary vines when burying side vines they will eventually take over or you will have a full time job chopping them out. When I burying sides you can see the little tertiary sprouting at the leaf nodes, pinch them off then and you stop the future problem. To late for this year but remember for next year.

8/4/2010 8:25:22 PM

Minneapolis, MN

It's not normal tertiary growth... it's explosive, from a single node... like an entire pumpkin plant is trying to grow into the ground, all mutated, from a single node...

This plant did strange things even with the secondaries (1-3 flowers, tendrils, and tertiary starts at each node creation...)...

8/5/2010 1:34:26 AM