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Darkman · 02-20-2018, 07:25 PM

If Momma pushes four or five leaves before she pushes a bloom you should get fruit this year and in time to bloom. You should get a bloom off the mid size pup. It's even possible to get the small pup to bloom this year.

My recommendations were if you just have to have the bloom. To me in our climate we can just let nature take its course. Remember my large mats. The big one by the driveway fruited five p-stems last year and there were probably thirty pups. My Saba in the back fruits three p-stems and there were around fifteen pupils on it. Your mat is still small.

It's a individual decision. If you have to have a mature bunch every year then use the strict instructions but it's more fun and more visually appealing to just fertilize, water and let it go.

You should be fine leaving or separating. You give it enough food to keep them all happy. I don't manage mine and the only food they see is what spills over from the blueberries, citrus and muscadines. Like wise on the water.

Hope that helps.

02-20-2018, 07:25 PM	#5 (permalink)
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