Re: Cutting Vines Off
Alan
Some people cut of every second secondary, but usually not depending on how
close together they come. If they are closer than I foot apart I would cut
of every second secondary - otherwise not. The best way to explain it is
like this - think of your plant as a tree growing horizontally. The main
vine is the trunk, the secondaries are the branches and the twigs come off
the branches. Cut off the twigs.
Doing it like this you can grow your plant in a Christmas tree shape, which
is great for getting in and around your plant for maintenance etc.
Glenn
-----Original Message-----
From: AEIDM@aol.com <AEIDM@aol.com>
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Date: Monday, August 23, 1999 5:05 AM
Subject: Cutting Vines Off
>Could someone tell me if I'm supposed to cut off the vines that are growing
>off of the main vines? Because I cut off a whole bunch of vines and left
only
>3 of the biggest vines that are growing off of the main vine. Or am I
>supposed to leave it growing? I don't know what I was thinking when I
started
>going bezerk and chopping all the smaller side shoots off. I was thinking
>that if I cut off all the smaller shoots off, the others would take off.
Did
>I make a big mistake? And if I did it right how many side vines should I
let
>to grow? And can I make 1 pumpkin grow on each side vines. So if I left 3
>side vines growing off of the main vine then I have 4 vines so can I grow 4
>pumpkins from 1 plant? And do I just keep chopping all the small side vines
>that start to come long off? So now my vines have no side shoots because I
>cut all the small vines off and left only the growing tip growing so it
comes
>longer should I stop cutting all the even small side shoots off. I'm not
>worried about growing the worlds largest pumpkins because in Hawaii there
is
>no largest pumpkins contest. (I think)
>
> Thank You and Aloha from HAWAII Alan
>
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