...of the indeterminates. Having multiple stems has turned out to be a bigger problem than I first thought. I chose one stem as the main stem and trained it up the stake. To choose the main stem, I looked for the one that had the best shot of climbing the stake. Some of the secondary stems had some nice fruit on them, so I didn't completely remove the secondary stems. I did prune the growing tip out of the secondary stems and tied them up as much as I could. I had to use bamboo stakes on a couple of them. I was hoping to keep the extra stems from toppling over and keep the main stem cleaned up. But it didn't work out so well. A couple of the secondary stems broke off.
This one had a decent sized fruit on it, so I couldn't bring myself to prune off the whole stem. Also notice that all the leaves on this stem are curled and leathery. Probably stress related, but I'm not sure if it's the excess water mentioned
here or if it's something else.
You can see here that the stem broke and then scarred over.
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