Re: you can't grow pumpkins in a tree

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• To: Bart Toftness <t*@mindspring.com>
• Subject: Re: you can't grow pumpkins in a tree
• From: S* D* <S*@Douglas.BC.CA>
• Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 20:36:20 -0700

Hmm....  Believe it or not, I now have a pumpkin growing in one of my small
vine maples.  I let it set after my big pumpkin split.  Will let you know
how it goes, whether I get the goo and all.

Who knows, this could be the start of a fad?

Stephen

At 02:58 PM 9/7/97 -0400, you wrote:
>All of the pumpkins on my Greer 1006 have split very early, so when a side
>vine grew out of the patch and started up a small tree I let it go.  After
>all, what's the worst thing that could happen....grow a pumpkin!  Well,
>sure enough it set a pumpkin about 4 feet up.  As it grew in size, it began
>to pull the vine down and it became a curiosity.  I began to think I should
>release the vine but what the heck, if it wants to grow in a tree who am I
>to stop it.  About once a week I would go look to see how it was
>doing....getting closer to the ground each week.  This week it is VERY
>different.  It looks like an exploded water balloon and below is a mass of
>jello like goo.  I cut it off. The stem was still fine but the top half of
>the pumpkin was a paper thin shell with nothing inside.  I guess your not
>supposed to grow pumpkins in a tree.
>
>Bart
>Wallingford, CT
>
>

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