RE: Side viners

Side vine pumpkins often do start out strong but tend to disappoint later.
Some feel that an early commitment to a main-vine set is the only way to
"plumb" a plant for success. 

It's getting late for a main set.....how soon is the next lady to arrive on
the main dance floor?

Stephen Jepsen
CT GS&PGA President
 
Grow 'Em BIG
 
 

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From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of
kathie morgan
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 11:58 AM
To: Hort Pumpkins
Subject: Side viners

One of my three plants this year is from a 'proven' seed. I had a pumpkin 
swell up quickly on one of the early side vines, and I left her there. Like
to say that I left her to hold the vine down from the wind that attacks from
that direction, but it's really because she so rapidly became such a beauty.
Meanwhile, I determined where my main vine pumpkin needed to be to be far
enough from the stump and began watching for females in that neighborhood.
Set them in turn and began watching to see which of the three would be THE
ONE.
On Saturday I discovered to my embarrassment that my three 'main vine'
ladies are actually on a secondary running parallel to the main.
My question is,
1. Do I go with the best of the three on the late secondary?
2. Or do I pin my hopes on the earlier and therefore larger fruit on the
early secondary?
3. Or do I set the next main vine blossom that opens and shoot for a late
weighoff like Salinas?
4. How does banging my head against a wall sound?

Kathie
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