Re: Just a Quick one.

This raises a question of how do you deal with the requirement to have some
slack in the vine to accommodate fruit growth. It is easy to plan for one
fruit by inducing a s-bend in the vine and trimming the roots at adjacent
nodes, but if you have a number of fruit on the vine and not knowing which
one you plan to keep would make it difficult to accommodate vine growth. I
am particularly thinking here if the fruit are all on the main vine and
relatively close together.
What technique to people use here folks?

Stewart
Canberra  Aust
the nation's capital
sdeans@pcug.org.au
-----Original Message-----
From: Michalec, Chris <cmicha@chmc.org>
To: 'pumpkins@mallorn.com' <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Date: Wednesday, 24 June 1998 11:25
Subject: RE: Just a Quick one.


Marty,
Your plants will determine when it is time to set fruit.  When you walk
out into your patch one sunny morning eyes still puffy from sleep and
they pop wide open at the sight of that orange yellow flower wide open
on top of the little yellow baby pumpkin it is time to set fruit.  We
can plan by the calendar all we want but the nature of the plant and the
weather will determine when the fruit gets set.  If yours are vining out
to that size already you may be ready to go sooner than you planned.
When those little girls are ready, pollinate them and keep doing it
until you've set all you want.  You never know how many will survive and
continue to grow.  Later in the season you will have to determine if you
are going to cull some from the plant or let them all grow.  It all
depends on what your goal is.  If you want a bunch of really big
pumpkins let them grow,  if you want one or two real giants, pick off
the slowest growers.  As I hear more about growers having plants that
produce a ton and a half of fruit I'm beginning to question the value of
culling fruit.  But I may still do it myself, we'll see.  It's hard plan
everything exactly with pumpkin growing.  You plan and prepare and then
deal with what you get and hope it all ends with big ripe orange fruit
in October.  Good growing.

Chris Michalec
Covington, WA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martsmth@aol.com [SMTP:Martsmth@aol.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 5:46 PM
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: Just a Quick one.
>
> Hi...Marty here again.  I'm so new at this its unbelievable, so bear
> with me
> please.  I began germination my seeds about 1 month ago today...and
> was
> wodering if July 23-30th seems like a good target date for a fruit
> set?  My 2
> largest plants are at about 10 and 7 feet, respectively, along with
> one that
> is at about 5 feet, and another that is lagging way behind at about 3
> feet.
> The latter 2 of the 4 I am planning on pulling once I determine that
> they are
> the ones that will be the smallest plants by the time fruit setting
> comes
> along.  I have two hills, with 2 plants per hill.  If I screwed up
> with the
> target fruit set date, just suggest something more realistic if you
> all
> would...Thanks a bunch.
> -Marty Max
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