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Re: Setting Pumpkins/Pruning


Keep working. Hand pollinate as a helper to the bees. It can't hurt. Don't do
much pruning until you start to see some vines coming on your secondary
vines. The first vine that comes is the main or primary vine. Off that will
come secondary vines. Off those will come tertiary vines. Some growers cut
off all tertiary vines. Some limit secondary vines to 8 to 10 feet. Some
limit the primary vine to no less than 10 feet after any pumpkin set on the
primary vine and if no pumpkin on the primary vine then maybe 20 to 30 feet
overall. This is not written in stone. There is controversy. Mine is one
opinion of many and I could later change my mind as I get smarter.
Marvin Altoona PA


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