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3 acre corner in Whittaker,Mi USA (faulkner5@msn.com)

Hi everybody. Quick question for everyone about when to start terminating the secondaries and the number per day or every other day or whatever you guys and gals timeline is so the plant isnt shocked or anything...any help would be great!!!! Thanks...Erik

6/29/2014 10:30:55 AM

Williamsburg,KY

One a day. You can google under advanced search with bigpumpkins.com as the website to search and I think there is lots of discussion on this topic.
Most try to keep the vines within bounds of patch but there are exceptions. Good Luck.

6/29/2014 12:31:57 PM

Eastern Pennsylvania

I prune the very tiny end of a secondary when the vine tip is about 18 inches from the designated boundary. The vine will typically elongate about that much more before final length is reached. If I have 10 secondaries that happen to be at that point all on the same day, then I prune all 10. I am from the I don't have time to tip-toe around my plants school of growing.

6/29/2014 5:58:12 PM

Colorado

I do the opposite of ON. I let the vine grow past where I'll prune it. That's to get some size on the last leaf-doesn't burn as bad. Also gets the vine to lay down better at last couple leaves. Then I cut it.

6/30/2014 11:48:43 AM

Eastern Pennsylvania

I don't have trouble with burners very often. My thought is to avoid wasting plant energy growing leaves and vines that will be cut off later.

7/1/2014 10:01:51 AM

Central Minnesota

Previously I did what Orangeneck did, pick the little tip in advance. This year I am doing what cojoe describes above and it works far better for me. Much easier to get the end buried and far less leaf burn.

7/1/2014 10:31:36 AM

Millville, UT

One of the things I have noticed for me is if I terminate at a node that has not started to root the node tends not to root at all. If I let the secondary grow out like cojoe does to the point that where I want to terminate has started to root then that last node will continue to root after termination.

7/1/2014 12:52:05 PM