Re: vine burial
- Subject: Re: vine burial
- From: &* A* T* <h*@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:00:37 -0400
What exactly does pinch mean? Do I just snap the end off? Or do I bend
the end? My concern is that the integrity of the vine will be
compromised and allow bacteria or virus deposition into the opening in
the vine where the hole will be from pinching it. That was my
reasoning for just removing the blossoms from the female fruit instead
of removing the fruit itself- a hole was there.
Wow-the tertiaries are still growing? Amazing are these beasts of the
giant pumpkin world-
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 12:03 AM, don young <bigpumpkin@mchsi.com> wrote:
> burrying tertiaery vines will not stop them they will grow up from under
> dirt
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bridgette Antoinette Tojek"
> <honeybempowered@gmail.com>
> To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 10:30 PM
> Subject: vine burial
>
>
>> A few days ago I buried the secondary and tertiary vines of my Giant.
>> Now am I supposed to bury the end of the primary vine? I never
>> pinched and buried, I just buried the others. That was the first night
>> the pumpkin had no growth- I measure daily, not weekly. What I did to
>> the primary vine was removed all the female blossoms. There were quite
>> a few. The vine grew another foot and added a new female with fruit. I
>> culled that fruit and once again, the primary vine grew another foot
>> and added yet a new female. I do not want all this energy to be
>> diverted this way. Should I bury the primary vine as well? It is
>> currently 23 ft long and the fruit is 8 ft from the base/ mound.
>> Please advise
>> Bridgette
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