Re: flat vine > Medusa

Glenn, I am saddened to hear of the 1092 flat vine also.. *********(pretend)

*************GO YOU SON OF A  DARK HORSE!!


LIpumpkin@aol.com wrote:

> 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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