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Post by diggie on Jul 3, 2015 22:25:12 GMT
Hooray, it's just started to rain.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2015 22:28:04 GMT
Really smart set up Scrumpy, it looks immaculate! Your plants looking super healthy. Forgive my ignorance, but what do you mean by 'plenty of buds to knock back?' Clearly they've been stopped, laterals developing. I'm also growing Marston George this year. Mine nowhere near as far on as yours.
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Post by Raymond on Jul 4, 2015 5:57:31 GMT
scrumpy plants look fantastic . When is your first show ? diggie also rained here spectacular lighting and very good soaking . All the plants looked refreshed. Thank you garden gods.
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Post by scrumpy on Jul 4, 2015 6:03:56 GMT
At each leaf joint you get a side shoot that forms a bud. Depending on when you have a show, you either leave that side shoot on to let it flower, or remove it.
Those shoots you see at the top of the plant have a tiny bud on them that will flower in about 25 days. So they will be removed and shoots in the next set of leaves down will be allowed to grow and so on. I shall be letting them develop from about the 20th July.
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Post by Moonlight on Jul 4, 2015 6:18:30 GMT
scrumpy plants look fantastic . When is your first show ? diggie also rained here spectacular lighting and very good soaking . All the plants looked refreshed. Thank you garden gods.
Been up with headache, so went down to have a look. Very wet and fresh.
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Post by Raymond on Jul 4, 2015 7:58:58 GMT
Hope your daughter was not to scared Moonlight. Been through the plants this morning. Fairly happy with them bar some Capsid damage. Bug clear and ultimate bug ineffective. So have ordered a professional one. a lot of plants damaged by Capsid through the garden. Also found two very hungry caterpillars one devouring trelyn kiwi and Allan snowfire. They did not survive long that's four plants damaged by caterpillars now. One zoe, one candy and these two. Stopped hillcrest Jersie, kelsea Carla Ruskin Andrea , both zoes. The zoes just want to flower. Don't know if I have done it right. One zoe was easy as it was smaller. The others took an age as had budded up so early it made it problematic as multiple stems. Will need to de branch I think a lot. Will stop Diane, senzoe and dikara superb tomorrow. Using some Kent members timings for these. Disbudded and stripped down a couple of kenora sunset stems. See if the blooms are better size, more petal and depth. Makes good practise. I have a spare large pot. So I have a candy or peach delight ready to plant in it tomorrow morning. They are big and have been stopped. May as well. Will stop garden friends tomorrow also. Nice to have a flower now but would like to show it. Allowing Ac abby and parkland rave to flower . Ac abby in bud so have disbudded and left the crown bud only. Off to work now. Boo hoo |
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Post by Tel on Jul 4, 2015 15:46:04 GMT
Hi everyone it is 21.25 and their are Hailstones falling the size of golf balls don't think the dahlias will survive this never mind the sunny weather I hope your Dahlia's survived Ian K and I wonder if DcDahlia had his damaged too.  |
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Post by Raymond on Jul 4, 2015 22:19:45 GMT
scrumpy a lot more ants and blackfly here as well. More than I have ever noticed before. Two ant nests I have treated so far. A lot of critters around.
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Post by ian on Jul 4, 2015 22:38:54 GMT
Ant powder sprayed around the base of your plants works
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Post by Moonlight on Jul 4, 2015 23:43:07 GMT
Same problem here 
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Post by Raymond on Jul 5, 2015 8:31:33 GMT
I will be doing that once I get the mulch down on Thursday. Ant powder that is !
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2015 11:48:43 GMT
At each leaf joint you get a side shoot that forms a bud. Depending on when you have a show, you either leave that side shoot on to let it flower, or remove it. Those shoots you see at the top of the plant have a tiny bud on them that will flower in about 25 days. So they will be removed and shoots in the next set of leaves down will be allowed to grow and so on. I shall be letting them develop from about the 20th July. Thanks for the reply Scrumpy. Did you disbranch the plant down to the required number (Marston G =10 I think?) before starting this 'knock back process? In the few years I've been growing I've simply stopped/disbranched then secured the bloom just hoping it would be right for any show it might coincide with. wont the plant then form two shoots at the top of the stem where you cut it? (like double stopping) Would you then remove one of those? (plus all the lower buds) And what period would you wait before the replacement is in bloom? Thanks for your patience, this knock back thing is confusing me haha 
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Post by scrumpy on Jul 5, 2015 13:43:56 GMT
Never grown Marston George before so I'm playing it by ear.
Think I have 8 laterals per plant, didn't disbranch as that was all that came. So I will grow 2 blooms off a few of the laterals, up to 10 in total.
Yes it will form 2 shoots. That's what you want. When the bud is the size of a pea, it'll take about 23 days to develop. if no show in 23 days, remove it and try a lower shoot for a later show.
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Post by ian on Jul 5, 2015 15:08:48 GMT
Lots more lovely rain, hooray just perfect growing weather.
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Post by Raymond on Jul 5, 2015 15:19:08 GMT
Stop rubbing it in Mr s . We nearly had a drought down here ! Hehe good downpour today nice steady about 2 hours.
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