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I saw the advice here to kill the smaller plant, and elsewhere I saw the suggestion that I could transplant if I were careful. I decided to try that three days after posting this question. They b...
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Monica Cellio
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2022-02-04T02:36:43Z (about 2 years ago)
- I saw the advice here to kill the smaller plant, and elsewhere I saw the suggestion that I could transplant if I were careful. I decided to try that three days after posting this question. They both survived and yesterday I saw fruit forming on both for the first time. I took this picture today.
- The original (10") pot holds what was the smaller of the two plants. The new (16") pot holds the larger; when I transplanted it I buried the first set of leaves to give it more opportunity to form roots to offset whatever trauma came from being moved.
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I'm keeping an eye on that rainspout. You can't see it in this picture, but there is a drain between it and the pot on the left, and the plant wasn't bothered during a recent storm. I placed the pots here to see if that trellis helps while waiting for stakes to arrive.
- I saw the advice here to kill the smaller plant, and elsewhere I saw the suggestion that I could transplant if I were careful. I decided to try that three days after posting this question. They both survived and yesterday I saw fruit forming on both for the first time. I took this picture today.
- The original (10") pot holds what was the smaller of the two plants. The new (16") pot holds the larger; when I transplanted it I buried the first set of leaves to give it more opportunity to form roots to offset whatever trauma came from being moved.
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- I'm keeping an eye on that rainspout. You can't see it in this picture, but there is a drain between it and the pot on the left, and the plant wasn't bothered during a recent storm. I placed the pots here to see if that trellis helps while waiting for stakes to arrive. (I ultimately raised the pot on the left by putting it on a pair of bricks, so the downspout was not a problem.)
- Post-season update: Both plants produced fruit all summer.
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Monica Cellio
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2020-06-14T22:33:18Z (almost 4 years ago)
I saw the advice here to kill the smaller plant, and elsewhere I saw the suggestion that I could transplant if I were careful. I decided to try that three days after posting this question. They both survived and yesterday I saw fruit forming on both for the first time.- The original (10") pot holds what was the smaller of the two plants. The new (16") pot holds the larger; when I transplanted it I buried the first set of leaves to give it more opportunity to form roots to offset whatever trauma came from being moved.
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- I'm keeping an eye on that rainspout. You can't see it in this picture, but there is a drain between it and the pot on the left, and the plant wasn't bothered during a recent storm. I placed the pots here to see if that trellis helps while waiting for stakes to arrive.
- I saw the advice here to kill the smaller plant, and elsewhere I saw the suggestion that I could transplant if I were careful. I decided to try that three days after posting this question. They both survived and yesterday I saw fruit forming on both for the first time. I took this picture today.
- The original (10") pot holds what was the smaller of the two plants. The new (16") pot holds the larger; when I transplanted it I buried the first set of leaves to give it more opportunity to form roots to offset whatever trauma came from being moved.
- 
- I'm keeping an eye on that rainspout. You can't see it in this picture, but there is a drain between it and the pot on the left, and the plant wasn't bothered during a recent storm. I placed the pots here to see if that trellis helps while waiting for stakes to arrive.
#1: Initial revision
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Monica Cellio
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2020-06-14T22:28:23Z (almost 4 years ago)
I saw the advice here to kill the smaller plant, and elsewhere I saw the suggestion that I could transplant if I were careful. I decided to try that three days after posting this question. They both survived and yesterday I saw fruit forming on both for the first time. The original (10") pot holds what was the smaller of the two plants. The new (16") pot holds the larger; when I transplanted it I buried the first set of leaves to give it more opportunity to form roots to offset whatever trauma came from being moved.  I'm keeping an eye on that rainspout. You can't see it in this picture, but there is a drain between it and the pot on the left, and the plant wasn't bothered during a recent storm. I placed the pots here to see if that trellis helps while waiting for stakes to arrive.