Re: Huge Vine

Steve,
That happens at times. It seems that on at least one plant in my patch I cannot start anything on the main vine or the vine does not generate females. To protect against not growing a pumpkin on the plant, I will pollinate a female on a strong looking secondary vine. That pumpkin will be cut if I can start a pumpkin on the main vine. I usually do not pollinate a pumpkin on a secondary vine unless I see that I might not have any on the main vine. 

George Heyne
Rochester, MN
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Haberman" <shaberman@insmgt.com> 
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 7:17 AM
Subject: Huge Vine



I have the biggest vine going that I have ever seen to date. It is @ 30 ft
with at least 150 ft of secondaries and tertiaries. You would literally have a hard time fitting it into a paper towel roll diameter wise. My problem is 
this. There are no female flowers on the main. The secondaries are full of
them. I want to obviously take advantage of this plant. Should I be patient 
with the main or pollinate what is there? I pollinated the female furthest
from the stump to have a fruit going. I guess I won't panic until mid July. 

Thanks for any advise!



Steve Haberman

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