Re: flat vine > Medusa

Judy-Nicely?Well,there's not much "nice" about a flat vine but it seems to be 
a fairly common occurrance....I have a flat vine 1092 that is being kept for 
pollination purposes only now.Here's what I've learned since my vine went 
flat:
   we don't know what causes it for sure but most feel it has something to do 
with inbreeding of the pumpkins.
   pretty much noone has grown a big one from a flat vine itself...most 
terminate the vine and burry it ....hoping that a good normal vine will pop 
out of the ground.Others train side vines to take over the place of the 
main.Sometimes the flat vine will split off into two or more vines and people 
will chose the healthiest and go with that one,and then cut the others off.
  They say the vines usually get flatter and flatter as they go on.
 Mine was normal at first...then started to widen...then instead of one 
leaf,one sidevine bud and one tendril stalk comming out at the leafnode 
area,I started to get sets of twos....then four tendril stalks at each 
node...got pretty wierd and then the vine split off into two flat or double 
vines...like a snakes tongue.
   I don't know how they end up ...I cut and burried the end and trained a 
side vine to replace it.....In my yard I can only grow one ,so it'll hang 
around until the rockwell squash takes over(15 foot vine now) otherwise I 
would have let it grow  out of curioosity.I must say this...it sure made my 
decision as to which of the huge plants I would keep an easy one.My lovely 
wife puts up with my pumpkin fanaticism as long as there's a story that goes 
with the seed I plant in my yard....a seed from the worlds biggest pumpkin 
ever vs. the internets most famous squash.She wanted a pumpkin...me,that 
squash........its ok now that I'm growing a squash-it wasn't my fault!(and I 
pretend to be sad about the 1092 ,it keeps the homefront happy)...Glenn 
often...).....................................................G

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