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Thought you might like to see the results of 10 days in Grow Tubes.

It's also 52 days since the vines were planted.
The update on progress is that we have managed to get 2600 of the little beggars into grow tubes. We'll get the rest in early next week. It's the devil's own job getting people to come to work at this time of the year - isn't it Jake? Grow tube fitting has taken much much longer than expected and also much much more tetrapak. It's serendipity that the inner part of the tube is silvered which makes them act like sun tubes so that they don't get starved of sunshine whilst in their micro climates. In the last 12 days we've had 2mm of rain and the vines have had 3 irrigations of 5mm each time. This time the irrigation has been from the dam - hurray at last it all works - thanks to the long suffering Johan Barnard (and Zakrey of course).

The stats are: 270mm of water; 189 hours of good sunshine (whatever good sunshine is)

We start weeding and then pruning and training the vine to the cordon wire next week. Then when the vine is strong enough (pencil thick!) we'll strip the growtubes. It's all go here at Swallow Hill