Re:Weird
I cut a secondary from the main last week because it was getting in the
way of a pumpkin, and left most of it buried in the ground (soon to be
removed). Today it continues to grow just fine because it has a good
system of tap roots. In fact last year I harvested a 186# pumpkin from
a vine that was severed from the stump by vine borers. Your vine can
obviously support itself, but because it no longer has the root mass of
the stump I think your chances of a prizewinner are nil.
Having said that I would still bury all the vines and water/fertilize
what you have. Keep only the one pumpkin and prove us all wrong at the
end of the year with a 1200 lb. stumpless wonder!
Good Luck,
Bryan Saylor
Herndon, VA
"Dennis" <dhouser2@syix.com> wrote on 7/28/2001 9:28:29 PM:
>
>Hello List
>
>As you all know by now I have all but given up the good fight, But
>when I was taking out the 771.6 there was one piece of the main vine
>that had a tap root about 3 inches around and I don't know how deep.
>On July 20th a pumpkin was pollinated on the end of this vine it is
>now 8 days old and the size of a softball. The vine is a single vine
>about 10 feet long and then it has allot of new growth and the pumpkin.
> It seems to be getting new growth everyday. What chance does this
> pumpkin have and
>is this what is called a stump less wonder??
>
>Dennis
>
>d*@syix.com
>http://www.syix.com/dhouser2
>
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