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Minnesota([email protected])

I have two plants in my patch exhibiting double leafing. They are double at least to the 4th and 5th leaf nodes respectively. One is a competition plant, and the other is the only backup plant in the patch for it.
Are doublevines usually manageable ,through vine surgery, or training a secondary as the main? Or should I put in a third plant in that spot, just in case?

5/23/2006 3:04:52 PM

Ohio

Doug,Email Doc Gipe, hes got a really good fix on a double vine that helped me last year on a plant, it worked like a charm. I cant find the email he sent me last year but it has soomething to do with cutting the brand new microscopic leaves that are just starting. Last year I sent him a picture of my plant and he told me which leaves to cut off and it worked. I think if you cut the younger leaves off before they get mature the better your chances are it corrects itself and it heals faster.

Hopefully if Doc reads this he will chime in about it.

Brooks

5/23/2006 5:39:35 PM

Mocksville, NC

If it goes double vined remove one, if it doesnt dont mess with it,let that baby grow! Rog

5/23/2006 5:39:37 PM

Billerica,Massachusetts

some doubles will eventually split into two vines then you can terminate one, if you don not want to do the old " wait and see" then you cab GENTLY pull the two vines apart, ever so slightly and only pull them apart a little, then you will be able to terminate one end, but let the two separed vines grow alittle just to ensure that they are now separated, i've done this in the past with no ill results, hopefully it's a double and not a falt vine?

5/24/2006 8:19:58 AM

Chico, Ca

I have had vines that had two and even three leafs at a node. I left it alone and the plant got over it and grew normal.

5/24/2006 10:04:36 AM

Garden State Pumpkins

I seem to recall that there was a blight of double vines when we had unfavorable spring conditions...My Kuhn has doubled also..just wondering if this is not weather related.

5/25/2006 11:18:40 AM

Minnesota([email protected])

Well, the backup plant looks to be ribbon vining.
The competitition plant... I'm not sure what's going on.
It looks to be putting out 3 leaves at the same juncture, around the stem. These three leaves don't form at the same rate. One is sizes up a little before the other, and so on. Has anyone experienced this?

5/25/2006 12:09:43 PM

Billerica,Massachusetts

sounds like a flatvine, you can terminate the end and train a secoundary as the new main.

5/25/2006 1:23:33 PM