Re: PumpkinMasters Thanksgiving patterns?! HELP!


     I mean when the pumpkin is done growing it is done.  Once they are 
mature it is over.  So what if the plant keeps going.

Greg
GIant Pumpkin Grower
www.thepumpkinmaster.com
Fresno, California (It is very hot here only when pumpkins are growing, as 
soon as they are done temps are perfect for growing!!!)


----Original Message Follows----
From: SteveS012@aol.com
Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
Subject: Re: PumpkinMasters Thanksgiving patterns?! HELP!
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 15:07:36 EST

In a message dated 11/27/99 1:00:51 AM Eastern Standard Time,
thepumpkinmaster@hotmail.com writes:

 > Well, I still think once a pumpkin is done it is done.  And if you
 >  started a pumpkin plant now you could grow it in a green house, but if 
you
 >  just heated an old plant it wouldn't produce like a new one.   But I 
would
 >  love you to prove me wrong so that I could extend my growing season.
 >
 >  Greg
 >  GIant Pumpkin Grower
 >  www.thepumpkinmaster.com
 >  Fresno, California (It is very hot here only when pumpkins are growing, 
as
 >  soon as they are done temps are perfect for growing!!!)
 >

Well, what exactly is "done"? As far as I know most plants don't
spontaneously die by any self induced means, but are usually killed by some
external factor. I have already heard of "clones" (vine cuttings) from old
AG's sent off to another hemisphere to grow entirely new plants. It seems
most indeterminate vining plants are like this, and cold theoretically live
forever. I sent some tomato seedlings earlier this year to someone in Hawaii
(Hey Alan, how are they doing now, by the way?!), and last I heard they were
over 8 feet tall and still growing!
Of course with an AG the prime pumpkins will be on the main or secondary
vines, since most likely the third and fourth, etc., will keep getting
tninner, and the taproots probabyl can never really replace fully the main
root system. Although, I heard of some pretty big ones grown from "cut"
plants on vines with taproots alone.

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