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Old August 20, 2016   #2
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Hudson, I am having the same thoughts about my cantaloupe and watermelon plants. I've found some sites that recommend trimming growth points early in the year to limit the number of vines, and some that say to cut late vine tips to hurry fruit development. I would like to do the latter at this point, but am also thinking about the effect of loss of old inner leaves to mildew etc. If I remove the young healthy leaves at the tips, will the middle aged leaves remaining be able to carry the photosynthetic burden before they go down as well? In my back garden, the squash vines regularly get clipped by my husbands mower if they venture too far, and it doesn't seem to hurt them, so I think at this point in the season you would be ok to trim off some of the excess vines.
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