RE: Cut leave?

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If you have back-up plants, the best bet is to terminate now and plant the back-up, giving it the best chance to grow to it’s full potential.  If you don’t, I personally wouldn’t cut out a plant unless it was in another plant’s way.  Give it a chance to grow, and then determine if it should be terminated.  (I would hate to see you lose the 895, it was a real good plant for me last year.) 

 

-Gus

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Donald E. Chambers [mailto:dec@stratuswave.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 12:49 AM
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Subject: Cut leave?

 

List,

I have four mounds going.

1007 and 769 Brown are very strong plants , the 766 Truax and 750 Angelucci aren't far behind. In the squash garden I have the 218 Andrews and 895 Hester in the lead. One problem is that tonight looking at the plants I found the first true leave cut right off at the stem end (895), don't know if it was the Starlings or a cutworm?

Will the plant bounce back if there's another small leaf down between the cotyledons, or should I write it off.

Don   mostly urban grower

           Warwood, WV