Re: Burying vs flowers
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Burying vs flowers
- From: J* <s*@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 17:02:50 +0000
- Comments: Authenticated sender is <sln8m@cc.usu.edu>
This is my first SERIOUS year with pumpkins, so I am starting to bury
vines. (The weather in San Jose finally stopped being like what is going
on in New England, so there are vines!)
As I squatted there on my board, trowel in hand, I had this insight. If
I bury all the vines, then I will have a great root system, but no
flowers, and if I have no flowers, then why am I doing this at all?
So what is the procedure for burying vines and yet leaving vines to
produce flowers? Bury only secondaries, bury after fruit set? Bury x% of
everything?
Help please.
--
Give me a fast ship and a stout crew
For I mean to go GROW A MAMMOTH PUMPKIN
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Here is what I am doing. Don't bury the vine at all.
Just mound dirt up against the bottom half of the vine only at the
leaf joints. Roots will apear in a day or two. The flowers will
still grow. If you set a fruit neer a root cluster, just gently
clear the soil from that root area and clip it from the vine so it
can be free to move as the pumpkin pushes the vine around.
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