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[Michael Dossett <phainopepla@yahoo.com>]

Bob, 

Triple Crown is a floricane fruiting variety and not a
primocane fruiting variety so they will only fruit on
second year canes which have overwintered.  On rare
occasions, you can induce late season flowering by
causing the canes to go dormant through water stress. 
It doesnt work very well, however, and is unreliable. 
If freezing is going to be a problem in your area,
your best bet is to try to protect the canes from
winter cold by laying them down along the ground in
the late fall and using a very loose mulch over them
to insulate them.

Michael Dossett


--- Bob Sorenson <natvwine@cut.net> wrote:

> I have almost thirty 3 year old triple crown bb and
> the canes must have
> frozen this last winter.
> The plants are vigorous and from the ground the new
> vines are 3 to 4 ft. in
> height right now.
> Does anyone on the list know of a way to manage the
> vines for a single year
> crop? 
> It didn't really get unusually cold here last year
> and so would like to
> figure out a way to avoid having to overwinter the
> canes.
> 
> thanks much,
> Bob Sorenson, Utah Z 5
> 
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Michael Dossett
Corvallis, Oregon
www.Mdossettphoto.com
phainopepla@yahoo.com


 
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