Chugging along...

Each of my "top five" are doing well. The 964 Wolf is leading in length. The 1185 is a little wimpy, but at least I have five chances at growing something. One thing that I still haven't figured out, is how to get longer vines at this time of year. No matter what I do, my pollination time will be July 4th through the 11th, or thereabouts. It matters not how soon I start, or how warm the plants stay. I simply can't get the length. It's got to be soil, or nutrition, but really I can't figure it out.

For each plant I've mounded the dirt in front of the main in hopes of avoiding stem stress. I think this was one of my limiting factors last year with the 720.

1185 Bortner

I can tell this one is going to be a fast grower, but not so sturdy. Some leaves have already flopped to the ground. But hopefully I can get a pollination at 12 to 15 feet out.

1092 Martin and 964 Wolf

I never find any rhyme or reason as to where this thing places my pictures. At any rate, here is the 1092 Martin and 964 Wolf. I'll upload the 1092 first..........

857 Christensen

Here is the 857 Christensen. Probably the sturdiest looking plant I have this year.

Time for some photos...

Looks like I'll have five plants going forward. Time for some boring photos. First up is the 604.5 Warren. I'm just going to leave the tire around this one and see how it does.

Cold spell now 3 weeks long...................................

Lows in the 30s, high winds, ...

Hard to believe, but overall I can't complain. But this week I've needed to cut holes in the greenhouses to let the main vines come out. With the holes now cut in the plastic, that combined with 50 mph winds yesterday has resulted in even more torn plastic. That has lowered the temperature to the plants, and will cause growth to nearly stop until the weather warms up. We're not predicted to see a warm up until at least Friday. 

Anyone in this part of the country who has tried to do this without greenhouses is going to be way behind this year. If you are in Idaho and reading this (other than Brian) please drop me a note and let me know how things are going. I'm trying to work some ideas through the state fair this year... and I need to get an idea of what we might plan on for this fall. Thanks.

Cold and rain...

I've been traveling the last few days. Back at home we've continued to have cold weather and rain. Things are going pretty well considering the weather, which hasn't been good at all.