RE: Stumpless Wonders

ha ha ha, "Clifford, the Big Red... Pumpkin?"

(I can't believe my kids still read these books. They were my
bane back in the 60's... but that is beside the point.)

I've chopped up most of my patch, but you wouldn't know
it unless you saw the severed vines. No difference in the
leaves.

Just when my "big one" looks like it's stopping, it takes a deep
breath and grows a little more. I have an outside chance at
500 if it goes heavy.

Regards, Cliff

http://idahopumpkin.tripod.com/



From: vince <anaid_tecuod@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: pumpkins@hort.net
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Subject: Stumpless Wonders
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 08:24:11 -0700 (PDT)

I've got a story for you about a disconnected pumpkin that
should remove all doubt that AG's are of terrestrial origin.

I let a single tertiary vine grow near the end of the first
secondary of Medusa, my 1240 Daletas - about 10 feet out from
the stump.  I trained this tertiary along the edge of the patch
and let it set a pumpkin 16 feet later and then terminated the
vine.

A few weeks later this pumpkin really started to take off.  26
feet out from the stump it hit 26" in circumference at 10 days.
 When it started really porkin' out and gaining 20 lbs a day, I
decided that it had to be drawing down the plant and impacting
Little David who was beggin' for more on the main vine.  I
decided to cut him from his fuel supply....

I cut the tertiary vine at the point it joined the secondary.
This left this pumpkin stumpless on sixteen feet of vine with a
few short secondaries that covered about 100 square feet.

That day I was surprised to see that the leaves didn't even sag
a little with the lifeline cut..... weird.  The next morning I
measured the pumpkin and it had grown 16 pounds over night!

It continued to grow 10 to 15 pounds a day until we had a spell
of hot weather that slowed it down a little.  It is now over
300 pounds at 37 days from pollination and still going
strong....

I've named this little rascal Clifford in honor of Cliff
Warren.
I should probably give it some alien name instead because I
swear to god - these plants did not come from this planet...

vince

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