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Thursday, May 21, 2026
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TowneFamilyVT
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Vermont
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The 2741 opened this morning. 17 feet out on the main vine, five lobes, and that bright yellow color I was hoping to see.
Got her pollinated with fresh pollen from this mornings males plus refrigerated backup from earlier in the week. Now we wait 48 hours to see if she takes.
The decision-making doesn't stop there though. There's a new female developing in the tip that should land right around 21 feet � an ideal position with more plant behind it. Shes roughly 8 days from opening which puts weigh-off day at a clean 113 DAP. Textbook timing.
So the question becomes: do I carry both fruits through early development and make a keep/cull decision after both have had time to develop (roughly 16 DAP for this fruit and 8 DAP for the second fruit), or do I commit fully to the 17-footer right now and cull the 21ft female?
My thought is that cell division resources are finite. Two fruits competing during pre-pollination through DAP 28 means neither gets everything. My instinct is to give the 17ft fruit 8 days to prove herself, evaluate her growth rate on the morning the 21ft female opens, and make a binary decision then. One fruit, full commitment, no split focus.
Decisions decisions. More to come.
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