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Old May 6, 2017   #6
Spartanburg123
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Originally Posted by Gardeneer View Post
I know what you are talking about.
Sometime some of those nubs will stay like that for ever.
I have not found a convincing explanation for it. On the one hand its got pollinated and the blossom did not drop off. On the other hand it wont grow. Some of them eventually get like slightly bigger than a cherry. One year it happened a lot on my Mortgage Lifter. And I see something like that on Brandy Boy this year.
Last year, I had a bunch of dormant ovaries at the bottom of the plant- the stigmas had long since rotted off. The upper trusses set fruit no problem. Then all of a sudden, the lower dormant blossoms started swelling and growing. Someone once told me that the plant knows exactly where it needs to spend its energy- perhaps it is delaying fruit growth to get taller or accelerate things upstairs. My DLH's are doing this, but I noticed some of them had swelled this morning. Terhune is doing it too!
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