Re: Side viners
Kathie,
It's not too late to set a pumpkin here in California. Still
75 to 80 days to Elk Grove and more to Salinas.
If you want to grow a really big pumpkin, forget the side
vines... Especially, the early side vines. These just won't
have the follow through even though they can start real fast.
I would set a pumpkin on the main asap. Cull the early side
vine immediatly and leave the best of the three on the late
secondary as a backup for now. As soon as you are sure you
have a good set on the main, cull the back up on the side vine.
I cringe each time I have to cull a nice looking fruit on a
side vine so I stopped setting them entirely....
vince
--- kathie morgan <fishrap@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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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