Re: # of pumpkins/plant
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- Subject: Re: # of pumpkins/plant
- From: b*@pacific.net (Vickie Brock)
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 10:36:49 -0300
>How many pumpkins should be left on one plant? I beleive Andersen only had
>one on each plant and grew the biggest, but the Larue's had two and their 1016
>still cracked. I had thought the second pumpkin was a shock absorber, but in
>the above situations the theory did not work. Also, the plant with two
>pumpkins would have grown a bigger pumpkin. Does it make any difference at
>all whether or not there is 1,2, or 3 on each plant? Also, its kinda nice to
>have that second pumpkin as a back-up in case the main one blows (I only have
>one patch).
>Don
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Don,
A second pumpkin doesn't gaurantee that a pumpkin will not crack it acts as
a shock aborber for surges in growth.......but more times than not these AG
get holes.....so I leave 2 on because of this trait......unless you have a
bunch of plants which act as your back up......you can risk only one
pumpkin per plant. It also depends on the size of your plant if its kick
butt and fast growing two is a better bet......for Joe holland it save his
life as he had a 903 that crashed and then had a back-up at 879 on the same
plant....... i am not sure but Larue had a 916 that won and then won again
with an 812 from the same plant.......but the world records are usually one
pumpkin per plant.....if i only had one pumpkin plant i would leave two
pumpkins on .........brock
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