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Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Given the choice of only 2 fruit on one vine, would we keep one set at 22 feet out on a part of the main that currently has no secondaries on the last 8 feet? Or would a set on a secondary that IS well established (& will soon produce tertiaries) be better?

I could terminate this spindly main & use the secondary as the main (& thus the tertiaries as secondaries) if this isn't too radical just because the plant is nearing the end of the patch (long & skinny) & would *fit* better.

For one or several reasons this plant didn't produce any females until the vine became 20 feet long. Weird.

Steve

8/3/2003 7:14:14 AM

Cornwall UK.(50N 5W)300ft.

Steve,

Its not a bad thing to have no secondaries near a pumpkin on the main vine just saves you having to cut them off later.The main vine should get bigger as it gets older.
Do the 2 have similar pollination dates?

8/3/2003 1:05:24 PM

Topsfield, Ma.

I think most would go for the fruit on the main vine, gives you lots of plant behind feeding it. Good Luck !

8/3/2003 6:31:38 PM

Cornwall UK.(50N 5W)300ft.

Consider training some secondaries behind the fruit on the main forwards paralell with the main vine (like the tines of a fork) that might fill the space better and give you more plant behind the pumpkin.I have done this with my 427 Wolf plant because the fruit I kept was at 10ft and several secondaries had been removed because they accompanied promising females.

8/3/2003 9:26:26 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Yikes! I was mistaken. That vine is now 36 feet long with the female sitting like a turd right on the end. It's still a good week away. No great loss if I lose this one. But for the space it's taking up it could at least throw a biggun'.

8/3/2003 10:17:08 PM