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    Anyone else pinch out their runners ? I do but not sure it makes a lot of difference.
    You have to loose sight of the shore sometimes to cross new oceans

    I would be a perfectionist, but I dont have the time

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    I usually leave mine til they hit the top of the supports, and then nip the growing tip off.

    If pinching them out when they're small is supposed to make them branch out? then I wouldn't bother because I'm not that fond of runners, I only grow them for the OH
    Last edited by SarzWix; 24-04-2010, 09:15 AM. Reason: typos...

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    • #3
      I'm sure this has been covered before, but no I don't pinch mine out till they reach the top of the supports

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      • #4
        I would, but I'm a short-*rse, and can't reach the top of the support myself!
        All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
        Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Glutton4... View Post
          I would, but I'm a short-*rse, and can't reach the top of the support myself!
          Join the club, but there's this brilliant thing that has just been invented........ it's called the ladder.

          "Orinoco was a fat lazy Womble"

          Please ignore everything I say, I make it up as I go along, not only do I generally not believe what I write, I never remember it either.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by womble View Post
            ........ it's called the ladder.
            I can't reach to get it down from the holding frame
            aka
            Suzie

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            • #7
              Originally posted by womble View Post
              ........ it's called the ladder.

              I don't 'do' ladders!
              All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
              Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.

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              • #8
                Last year I pinched mine out before they got to the top of their supports and the swine kept on growing for about another 3 foot. They ended up looking like a smoke trail coming out of the top of a teepee.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Glutton4... View Post
                  I would, but I'm a short-*rse, and can't reach the top of the support myself!
                  Originally posted by womble View Post
                  Join the club, but there's this brilliant thing that has just been invented........ it's called the ladder.

                  Originally posted by piskieinboots View Post
                  I can't reach to get it down from the holding frame
                  Originally posted by Glutton4... View Post
                  I don't 'do' ladders!
                  What are you lot like ? Might of known it would be you three !

                  Serious now, I meant do you pinch out when a few true leave so they get bushy ?
                  You have to loose sight of the shore sometimes to cross new oceans

                  I would be a perfectionist, but I dont have the time

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                  • #10
                    It will make them bushy but will delay cropping.

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                    • #11
                      Thank you Real food, at last someone with a sensible answer !
                      You have to loose sight of the shore sometimes to cross new oceans

                      I would be a perfectionist, but I dont have the time

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                      • #12
                        I don't - often I don't even pinch out when they reach the top (I am tall!) but they do get in a bit of a tangle!
                        Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

                        www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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                        • #13
                          Only pinch them out when they get to the top of the canes, find they're bushy enough without any further assistance.

                          Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

                          Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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