Re: Hunt 991 and double side vines off of same place on main vine

In a message dated 04/10/2000 5:29:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
apapez@home.com writes:

<<  George LLoyd told me last year some people
 experienced problems like yours before. Its called flat vining were it sends
 multiple runneres out, it sounds from your message that yours occured on the
 main which is the most common and you preceded to use one of your secondary
 mains to keep the plant going. >>

Andrew and others:

The flat or ribbon vine syndrome of this plant was "cured" when I whacked off 
the main at 3 ft. from the stump very early in the vining stage. After that, 
the pairs of side vines really intrigued me as I have not seen two side vines 
coming from the same leaf axil on the same side of the main. As the plant 
gets larger, more pairs develop. The plant is really stable, no problems, 
except the tendency to snarl. The tendrils reach out and grab the other vine, 
making this plant higher maintenance. The tendrils can restrict growth enough 
to cause broken leaf stems and vine splits 

Thanks for your message. I know this plant will produce a fine pumpkin, it's 
just growing in an alternative manner under very unusual circumstances. This 
Hunt 991 is a plant with character!

Barb

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