Posted by Paul M. Cook on July 21, 2009, 9:31 am
To say my yellow lemon cucs have taken off is an understatement. I swear I
can hear them growing right now. Four weeks old and they are 4 feet tall
with big yellow flowers *everywhere.* They're putting out gigantic leaves,
too. Apparently they love the hot weather in SoCal.
So I have them in a pot, staked with bamboo poles. They hate the trellis
and won't wrap their tendrils around the square wood. So my question is,
how tall will these guys get? I may have a problem here real soon. Another
foot and they'll tower above the stakes. At this rate that will be about
one week.
Do you top them? I am not sure what I can do about getting something tall
enough to support them.
Posted by David Hare-Scott on July 22, 2009, 7:49 am
Paul M. Cook wrote:
> To say my yellow lemon cucs have taken off is an understatement. I
> swear I can hear them growing right now. Four weeks old and they are
> 4 feet tall with big yellow flowers *everywhere.* They're putting
> out gigantic leaves, too. Apparently they love the hot weather in
> SoCal.
>
> So I have them in a pot, staked with bamboo poles. They hate the
> trellis and won't wrap their tendrils around the square wood. So my
> question is, how tall will these guys get? I may have a problem here
> real soon. Another foot and they'll tower above the stakes. At this
> rate that will be about one week.
>
> Do you top them? I am not sure what I can do about getting something
> tall enough to support them.
Let them run sideways instead of upwards
David
Posted by Paul M. Cook on July 22, 2009, 9:05 am
> Paul M. Cook wrote:
>> To say my yellow lemon cucs have taken off is an understatement. I
>> swear I can hear them growing right now. Four weeks old and they are
>> 4 feet tall with big yellow flowers *everywhere.* They're putting
>> out gigantic leaves, too. Apparently they love the hot weather in
>> SoCal. So I have them in a pot, staked with bamboo poles. They hate the
>> trellis and won't wrap their tendrils around the square wood. So my
>> question is, how tall will these guys get? I may have a problem here
>> real soon. Another foot and they'll tower above the stakes. At this
>> rate that will be about one week.
>>
>> Do you top them? I am not sure what I can do about getting something
>> tall enough to support them.
> Let them run sideways instead of upwards
I have nothing to tie them to unless I got a length of chain link or
something. Was hoping to do this without a lot of materials.
Paul
Posted by David Hare-Scott on July 22, 2009, 6:27 pm
Paul M. Cook wrote:
>> Paul M. Cook wrote:
>>> To say my yellow lemon cucs have taken off is an understatement. I
>>> swear I can hear them growing right now. Four weeks old and they
>>> are 4 feet tall with big yellow flowers *everywhere.* They're
>>> putting
>>> out gigantic leaves, too. Apparently they love the hot weather in
>>> SoCal. So I have them in a pot, staked with bamboo poles. They
>>> hate the trellis and won't wrap their tendrils around the square
>>> wood. So my question is, how tall will these guys get? I may have
>>> a problem here real soon. Another foot and they'll tower above the
>>> stakes. At this rate that will be about one week.
>>>
>>> Do you top them? I am not sure what I can do about getting
>>> something tall enough to support them.
>>
>> Let them run sideways instead of upwards
>
>
> I have nothing to tie them to unless I got a length of chain link or
> something. Was hoping to do this without a lot of materials.
>
> Paul
On the ground
David
Posted by Paul M. Cook on July 22, 2009, 6:35 pm
> Paul M. Cook wrote:
>>> Paul M. Cook wrote:
>>>> To say my yellow lemon cucs have taken off is an understatement. I
>>>> swear I can hear them growing right now. Four weeks old and they
>>>> are 4 feet tall with big yellow flowers *everywhere.* They're
>>>> putting out gigantic leaves, too. Apparently they love the hot weather
>>>> in
>>>> SoCal. So I have them in a pot, staked with bamboo poles. They
>>>> hate the trellis and won't wrap their tendrils around the square
>>>> wood. So my question is, how tall will these guys get? I may have
>>>> a problem here real soon. Another foot and they'll tower above the
>>>> stakes. At this rate that will be about one week.
>>>>
>>>> Do you top them? I am not sure what I can do about getting
>>>> something tall enough to support them.
>>>
>>> Let them run sideways instead of upwards
>>
>>
>> I have nothing to tie them to unless I got a length of chain link or
>> something. Was hoping to do this without a lot of materials.
>>
>> Paul
> On the ground
Not feasible which is one reason they are in pots. I'm going to see if I
can get a length of concrete reinforement screen and stay vertical.
Paul
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> swear I can hear them growing right now. Four weeks old and they are
> 4 feet tall with big yellow flowers *everywhere.* They're putting
> out gigantic leaves, too. Apparently they love the hot weather in
> SoCal.
>
> So I have them in a pot, staked with bamboo poles. They hate the
> trellis and won't wrap their tendrils around the square wood. So my
> question is, how tall will these guys get? I may have a problem here
> real soon. Another foot and they'll tower above the stakes. At this
> rate that will be about one week.
>
> Do you top them? I am not sure what I can do about getting something
> tall enough to support them.