Re[2]: you can't grow pumpkins in a tree

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• To: t*@mindspring.com, Stephen Dunning <S*@douglas.bc.ca>
• Subject: Re[2]: you can't grow pumpkins in a tree
• From: j*@adc.com
• Date: Mon, 08 Sep 97 13:10:22 CST

     
     
     I HAD TWO IN A LILAC BUSH LAST YEAR!!
     
     JIM


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Subject: Re: you can't grow pumpkins in a tree
Author:  Stephen Dunning <Stephen_Dunning@douglas.bc.ca> at Internet-Mail
Date:    9/8/97 12:30 PM


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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