Re: Kinked Main Vine??
Hello,
Have you tried a grafting technique?
Help the vine to seal itself and heal, by giving it a heavy coating of
bees wax around the break.
The best, and cheapest form of wax to use for sealing plants is bought at
the hardware store. Go to the plumbing department and look for the wax
rings that seal a toilet to your main waste stack. They are just the
rights consistancy for sealing grafts on trees, and may work great on
pumpkin vines too. Plus they are a LOT cheaper than horticultural wax,
and easier to work with (sticky and workable at room temperature).
Maybe someone with more pumpkin experience could evaluate my suggestion.
Regards,
Tom
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Thomas Olenio
Ontario, Hardiness Zone 6a
On Sun, 4 Jun 2000 LIpumpkin@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 6/4/2000 11:08:36 AM Pacific Daylight Time, rick@lsil.com
> writes:
>
> << My main vine is about 32" and it seems it got a little heavy before it
> hit the
> ground. So it now seems to have a kink with a little clear liquid oozing out
> but
> now it is resting on the ground. I don't think this is good. Will this kill
> it?
> Is there anything I can do?
> >>
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> Hmmm.....ooze generally means there's a break in the vine at the "kink". Is
> it alot of ooze? (look more carefully for the break..is it across the
> vine(perp to the growth axis)=not too good,or is it just oozing at the
> "points" created at the fold or bend indicating a crease with a small crack
> at the sides? Often the vine will get heavy and "fold" over...small oozing at
> the corners of the fold...not the worst thing in the world but something you
> want to avoid. Sometimes when the vine folds over it will fold over more to
> one side than the other and screw up the orientation of the leaf stems (this
> is annoying)......the leaves start from under the vine now and those
> tendrills hold the vine up in the air like its on little piers or
> something.....leaves get crowded when this happens.
> The course of action depends on the severity of the crack....check it out
> thoroughly....is it your only plant? Is there another thats competing with it
> for one space?.....a big crack across the vine is bad.A small crack at the
> corners of the fold isn't as bad-- That i'd just burry and go on with life.
> But if your deciding which plants to keep and which to cull,it may have to be
> considered in your overall evaluation before culling....just my humble
> opinion...not to be confused with someone who has grown anything over
> 600lbs.....GlennA
>
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