Re: broken main tip

Hi Thomas,
A couple years ago, I let a secondary take over for a broken main. The break was at 10 feet and I grew a fruit about 5 feet past the break. The pumpkin ended up 894.4 pounds and weighed about 20% heavy. That year was extremely wet here and that was my biggest fruit. It never did gain the pounds per day that I would have wanted, but I believe that had more to do with the bad weather rather than the break that took place. I think you can still grow a lot of plant past that break area and you should be fine.
Joe P.
Leicester, NY




----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas" <thomas@pldi.net>
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 6:33 PM
Subject: broken main tip


I was wondering how many pumpkins have been grown on plants that have had
the main broken off and let a secondary take over as the main?
If you have had 1 was it after the break where the secondary took over that
it was set on or was it before the break and where the secondary took over as
the new main?
I have a plant that the wind broke about a foot and a half of the main off
with the plant being about 11 feet long before it broke. I have a female at
the joint just before the break and was wanting to know how many huge ones
have been grown on plants with broken main tips.
Thomas
S.W. Oklahoma

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