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Originally Posted by BlackBear
shade shade shade shade..........
that is what the Dr. ordered this year .
I have some determinant plants that have given buckets of red fruit and they are done !
fast and early .........Time to rip out and go for second crop as well .....these plants have
progressed about 6 weeks early ! This has never happened this way before .
0 precipitation for July with
Blue skies only interrupted from the haze and smoke from numerous forest fires !
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I don't know if you plan to rip them off completely, but there is a trick I saw on-line that seems to help produce a second crop from determinates:
Chop the stem and branches off, allow the stump to have a rest, add some liquid fertlizer and you see small branches begin to form around the stump. This supposedly invigorates the plant and gives it a boost to 'live again'.
Might work.. I think I'll try it with my mini dwarf - once it stops producing, I'll chop the leaves off and see if the cycle starts again
