Re: Man Vines

This year we planted six excellent seeds (OK, 5 excellent seeds plus my Morgan).
One of the seedlings (not the Morgan, btw) flatvined right from the stump. I call her Octo-Mom. Where other girls have nodes with one each of everything, OM has at least four of everything.
Because David grew his prize-winning 649 Morgan 03 on a similar vine, I set a pumpkin on her main. Her pumpkin stems are relatively long (even on the normal side vines), giving me optimism that I can coddle her into a fruit worth showing somewhere. At least she is an experiment.
Because she is otherwise healthy and because the other five plants are healthy and normal, in this case it almost has to be genetic. Her mother weighed over 1300 pounds, so the stock is apparently healthy. 

Pruning her takes most of my day, so if you'll excuse me ...


Kathie



On Jul 27, 2010, at 6:59 PM, Russ Stokes wrote:
Their is a scientific term for this condition other than what some people refer to as ribboning but I have forgotten what it is called. It generally is a genetic condition. But don't discount pest or possible injury from spray. You say you have strong vines otherwise, in that case I would pinch out the main vines as close to the end as possible and this will put energy into your laterals. Generally, the first two laterals at the base of the plant are strong and vigorous and this is where you should try to get fruit to set and treat these laterals as a main. I hope this helps. 

Russ Stokes

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