Re: Can you speed up fruit ripening on the P-stem?
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Originally Posted by Worm_Farmer
Keep it fed and hope for the best. This happens almost every year to me. I pull right before 1st freeze and let them ripen inside and hope for the best.
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How is the fruit quality (compared to ripening on the plant) and what varieties have you done this with?
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Originally Posted by oakshadows
Removing the bloom after the stalk starts getting blank spaces will help the fruit, that is what I was told many moons ago. With out the bloom more of the plants energy will go into the fruiting. Good luck.
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I have heard this. Does anyone have any facts to support this?
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Originally Posted by Nicolas Naranja
Keep the plant growing as fast as possible and you can prune the bunch. If perhaps you have an 8 hand bunch you could cut off the bottom 3 hands and it would mature a little faster. You aren't going to shave a month of of fruit fill or anything but maybe 10 days.
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That is exactly what I was wondering. 10 days could mean a lot here.
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Originally Posted by saltydad
Sorry, I don't intend to hijack your thread ......
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No problem for me. Since it will die I would think you should cut it off but there are more knowledgeable people out there that will hopefully chime in.
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Originally Posted by TRAY
If i'm reading your comment right and your plant already flowered, don't they die after they flower?
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Yes they do but the corm will produce or should have produced more pups. What you have to do depends on where you live.
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Last edited by Darkman : 09-26-2011 at 05:23 PM.
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