siphoning
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: siphoning
- From: j* b*
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 06:14:49 PST
Idea:
What if you took a large water or bulk tank, filled it with a mixture of
choice soils, compost, manure, organic matter, bacteria, worms,
etc....,whatever is deemed a good balanced nutrient rich medium and
start the pumpkin in this. The tank should be at least three feet deep
and big enough to handle vines with over a hundred leaves. Now as the
plant grows you train the vine to take advantage of as much of the
surface area as possible, zigzag or coil the vine. Once the vine is
reaching a certain length you let it go over the edge and down to a
level below the tank, here you set a pumpkin. Because the pumpkin is
lower than the root system, the perceived siphoning effect of the vine
to the pumpkin would cause tremendous uptake of water & nutrients
and the pumpkin would act like a "holding tank". The grower can control
the growth by monitoring the amount of water. : )
Just looking for that "extra" thing.
John "Cornhusk" Barlow
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