Re: Main vine?

I cut off a secondary vine and buried it and for fun, pollinated a pumpkin just before the buried vine. The pumpkin took off and I let it grow on the buried vine. The final weight was about 460 pounds.

George Heyne
Rochester, Mn.

Elsbree wrote:

To the list, Has anyone ever heard of or cut off the main vine  just after the pumpkin?I had someone tell me that if you did this all   the energy  would go into the pumpkin.I think he thought that any growth past the pumpkin didn't contribute as much asthe secondaries off the main between the tap root and the pumpkin. Mark
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