RE: A little help ....Please
Hi Tony
The thing that I would have gained from pollinating 5-6 foot pumpkin
would be nothing more than experience. Last year I did a poor job and
had a lumpy looking squash to show for it. I figure that if there's a
female ready to receive pollen, may as well give it a shot for the sake
of practice. Its what I would do, that's all. Honestly, since its only
going to take a few days for the pumpkin to reach basketball size, it
shouldn't suck away too much energy. There is also the theory out there
that if you prune away certain vital parts of an AG, the plant responds
by working harder to feed the next viable fruit.
Who knows for sure. Its a theory.
Now tell me, do you have three main vines on only one plant? Your
wording sound like you do. That's pretty cool! Coincidentally, this
reminds me of a conversation I had with Kyle (honest, he's not the only
guy I talk to about AGs!). He had a single plant last year that grew 4
mains. For no other reason than curiosity, he let them each grow one
pumpkin (I think they were all cream colored). If I remember the
conversation correctly, he ended up with close to 2000 pounds of pumpkin
from one plant. Divided four ways, that's close to 500# per pumpkin.
Not too shabby, huh? I remember the story because got me hoping one of
my plants will multivine so I can give it a try. :-D I don't know how
much different the results would have been if he grew only one fruit,
but I suspect he would have gotten a 600-800 pounder. Just a guess,
though.
Toby
mr-sprout@sbcglobal.net
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Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 7:26 PM
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Subject: Re: A little help ....Please
Hello All;
Thanks to Katie and Toby for all your great help !!!
Toby's' answer now brings another question. What is to be
gained by letting my first pumpkin at 5 or 6 feet from the root ball to
be allowed
to grow to the size of a basketball just to cut it off? Will this not
just
use energy that would go to the next bud, which is around 12 feet?
And while I have your ear, or eye if you please..... I
have
three main vines,
and two of them have secondary vines. All three now have pumpkins at 8,
12
and 13, or 14 feet out. Should I allow all three to set pumpkins? I
would be
please with two big pumpkins than three medium ones.
Again .....thank you for you help.........
Tony C.
Fairport, NY
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