Re: 2000# Pumpkin Paradox
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- Subject: Re: 2000# Pumpkin Paradox
- From: "* D* <s*@pcug.org.au>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 22:44:31 +1100
Marv,
My pruning technique was totally inadequate this season and I ended up with
a jungle. I understand the christmas tree technique was only developed last
(northern) season, as I understand it you run the main vine straight and
allow only secondaries to grow presumably longest at the root end (from both
sides of the primary). At some point you need to cut the ends of the
secondaries and bury them as you run out of space same for the primary and.
Where would the fruit be grown - in the middle of the patch or at the end of
the vine?
Would you allow the secondaries to fill a rectangular plot?
I assume the christmas tree the the growing shape not the final mature
shape.
Stewart ACT Aust
sdeans@pcug.org.au
-----Original Message-----
From: Lubadub <Lubadub@aol.com>
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Date: Monday, 19 January 1998 9:18
Subject: Fwd: 2000# Pumpkin Paradox
>It seems to me that the number of pumpkins you can support with one plant
has
>a lot to do with the size of the plant. A plant of 3000 square feet might
>handle 3 pumpkins. Someone growing in limited space might have to keep
their
>plant at 1000 square feet and one pumpkin or maybe two per plant. This is
why
>the Xmas tree method of pruning is of interest. It allows someone with
limited
>space to go for the gold. I only have 2000 square feet of growing space. I
>will grow two plants and use the Xmas tree technique of pruning. I'll have
one
>or at most two pumpkins per plant. I wish I had more time and more energy
and
>more space. I don't.
>
>Marv in Altoona PA
>
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