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Old 04-30-2010, 08:48 AM   #9 (permalink)
Nicolas Naranja
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Default Re: Bunch ripening w/o leaves

Commercially you would like to see at least 7 healthy leaves on a plant when you start flowering, at least 10 would be better. At my previous location, I had a lot of problems with black sigatoka and I found that if I had five leaves at flowering one option that I had to fill fruit out was bunch pruning. With 4 remaining leaves you are not going to fill out a 10 hand bunch, but you may fill out a 4-5 hand bunch.
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