leaves are sun seeking machines... a sunny day or so after moving a vine .... they will re-orient themselves ... what plant doesnt matter.. its just a general rule .... you are going to have to do better with vine support.. the better you get at growing such .... as you can see ... your plant is very quickly outgrowing what you have .. and without stakes to support the chicken wire... it might collapse .... also .... i dont understand the wood ... if you look under such.. odds are.. you will find slugs hiding there ... and no one wants to encourage a slug population .... see you in the veg forum ... actually.. i wont.. as i dont visit there .. but i am sure you will find many new friends ... but if they let you down.. we will cover your back here .... ken

Welcome to the rural South, Mary... Took the city LETTING people practically deforest the entire area and make national news in the process BEFORE they put a stop to it. Now I KNOW how some of these lots must have looked, based on how other wooded pine lots look -- 100 or more pine trees to the acre, as the Southern White Pine tends to grow in tight groups like that -- and pretty much ANYBODY planning to build would cut down a good percentage of those in the process to make room for their home, and thin the rest to make room for other things... but again, we're not talking about THAT MANY TREES to provide habitat for so few birds. People can go SO DANGED FAR off the deep end over things. Heck, maybe they should start CREATING a few "woodpecker trees" by "sap-ringing" them and cutting little "Vs" to make the beginning of what looks like a nest hole... work WITH the birds, rather than against them. Or does that make too much sense? :(

To paraphrase what my friend Joe Real said in another forum: "The rolling of the leaves makes it absorb less sunlight and increased roughness coefficient for better sensible heat transfer to help cool off the plant. In a way, drooping behaves the same way also, when the leaves droop, its angle become more vertical and thus become more oblique when absorbing sunlight, thus reducing radiation load, also the roughness coefficient increases, and this facilitates heat transfer from leaves to air. It is quite common with most plants. It is called midday water stress. We used to measure leaf water potential various times of the day. When the root system cannot keep up with evaporative demand, the plant's leaves droop or wilt as a safety reaction. Sometimes, it is leaf rolling."

17 years ago in my sisters small town in Illinois...I was wrestling my kid into his car seat...he was fitful and kept unbuckling it...we had been in the grocery store to visit my sister in the deli she ran so I was just carrying my wallet...I sat it on top of the car...and of course...you know I got the kid in the car and drove off...and didn't remember it till a few minutes later when pulling into my sisters driveway...I rushed back...saw bits and pieces of my wallet strung across the highway...my sister said...go to the police station...my money...my credit cards...my passport...everything of value was in there and I was 400 miles from home...I walked into the police station and he's holding my passport up and chatting with my husband on the phone...I was so embarrassed that I had done a lamebrained thing...he just laughed...a women saw it fall off...stopped and picked it up and took it to the police station...but wouldn't leave her name...I wrote a letter to the editor of their small paper and he published my thank you note to the wonderful stranger who saved my vacation... 9 years ago our Duncan Doggie got out and took off...we looked and looked for over a week...he was tagged so we were thinking the worse that he'd been killed...sure enough a week to the day the phone rings and a women says "Are you Duncan's Mom? we flew outta the house and over to where he was some 10 miles away...that 80 pound dog jumped into my hubands arms...I pulled my husbands emergency cash from his glove compartment and gave it to them...they looked like they could use it and it will keep them honest...they didn't want to take it but I made them...Getting that doggie back was worth 100 times what we gave them...He said "Seeing that dog jump into your husbands arms was reward enough for me"... and my last honesty story...At Christmas I was waiting in the car while my son went into a store and had put my purse down at my feet...my son came out to the car to ask me a question and opened the door instead of waiting for me to roll down the window...We get 5 miles away and to the next store and I have no purse...I raced back to where we were and a nice couple were sitting in their car waiting for me to come back...I had bought gas gift cards for my kids that day...I hopped outta the car and gave them one...the thought of losing my purse was by far more then I gave them... Yes there really are lots of honest people still left in this big wide world and I thank my lucky stars to meet up with so many of them...If I had a nickel for every cell phone I've mailed to some passenger who's left it on the plane I could retire...I firmly believe that what go's around comes around...so I do my part in returning stuff I find (and believe me I find lots of stuff left on planes!)