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Originally Posted by bower
@zipcode, I was wondering if "leaf on the truss" was a response to pruning, because I do have that on multiple plants this year, which seemed to want a leaf handy for those little fruits. The difference in the 'super truss' though is that instead of just terminating in a leaf, the truss continues to branch and produce new buds, flowers and fruits.
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That is a trait that is definitely associated to some gene to some extent. The multifloras I grew (like Riesentraube) have many leaves in that huge flower truss. Also, again PBTD, I wonder what the parents were, has some very odd characteristics. Besides having very big trusses with leaves and sometimes leaders, it also often skips after the first truss to 5 leaves instead of the normal 3 before the next truss (probably to better feed the megatruss).