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Old 08-04-2003, 08:57 PM
Nick Maclaren
 
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Default Vine pruning - when?

In article ,
David Rance wrote:
On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Nick Maclaren wrote:

The trouble is that you can't tell leaf buds (which I want) from
shoot ones (which I don't) at this stage.


?? On a vine they're one and the same thing.


That's the point. As they develop, some will produce a leaf or two
and stop, and others will produce long shoots with leaves all along
them. Lacking prescience, I can't tell which buds will do which,
and there are places I want the former but not the latter.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.