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Originally Posted by Barb_FL
Your plants look great!! Did you top water / feed them? What did you feed them?
Did you have any problems with the buckets falling over once the plants got large. It looks like you just have a single bamboo pole for staking them.
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Hi Barb,
Sorry for the delay in answering your post.
I top water, as needed initially and as summer sets in/plants get larger I'm top watering every 1-2 days depending on the bucket. I feed them, initially every 2 weeks or so, then by mid-summer I feed weekly. I alternate with a granular manure-based fertilizer and Miracle Grow. This year I think I'll also try some Epsom salt later in the summer as plants tend to show Mg deficiency by late in the summer/early fall.
I did not have any problems with the buckets falling over. I did have some branch damage with heavily fruited branches during high thunderstorm winds, but in general the two plants branches growing into each other seems to kinda support each other.
Hope my post helps you out!
Justin