Re: vine burial

Thanks for that info- I will carefully evaluate what I have been
feeding the plant and try to decide what went wrong. I also do not
know what it means to pinch the vine. Is this simply bending the end
and then burying it? Kind of clamping the end of the vine? I just
worry about leaving an opening/ gap for bacteria and such. But I need
to do this as soon as possible but am reluctant to do so without a
response from the experts. I am sure it seems simple enough to most
but to me it seems as if I am missing something.
Sorry
Bridgette

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Shawn Kasprick <kasprick@gra.midco.net> wrote:
> Chlorosis (yellowing) of the leaves can be a number of different causes...if
> the new leaves are yellow it may be sulfur, if the old leaves are turning
> yellow then it is usually nitrogen.  If the yellowing makes the leaves look
> striped (either in between the leaf veins or the veins themselves) then it
> may either be zinc or iron...  There can be others that make this problem
> occur, but most likely it is one of these culprits.
>
> Depending on how much water you have been giving your pumpkins they may just
> have too much water...and this could cause a nitrogen deficiency.
>
> Too much nitrogen does not cause a plant to yellow...sorry to jump on this
> one Steve.  To much fertilizer, nitrogen in particular, will cause excessive
> vine growth and delay the maturity of the plant.  Besides too much
> fertilizer will also force the plant to use more water, usually because of
> the excessive vines.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of
> Steve Haberman
> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 12:59 PM
> To: pumpkins@hort.net
> Subject: RE: vine burial
>
> Too much water or too much N can cause yellowing. It is hard not to want to
> pump both to your plants. I would guess too much fertilizer.
>
>
> Steve Haberman
> Insurance Management
> 959 E 4th St.
> Marion, IN 45952
> Cell: (574) 551-5601
> Email: shaberman@insmgt.com
> Fax: (765) 664-0761
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of
> Bridgette Antoinette Tojek
> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 1:13 PM
> To: pumpkins@hort.net
> Subject: Re: vine burial
>
> Also, some of the leaves on a vone, not the vine with my big fruit on it,
> but another primary vine has leaves that have started turning yellow. What
> nutrient in excess or defeciency cause yellowing of the leaves? Thanks
> \Bridgette
>
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Bridgette Antoinette Tojek
> <honeybempowered@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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