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Buffalo, MN (Billsbigpumpkins@hotmail.com)

Has anyone taken a seedling and make clones from it and planted them? I tried it this year and it appeared easily to accomplish. It looks like it would be easy to make 5 or 6 clones.

Bill

6/8/2005 11:02:34 PM

Cologne / Germany

Yeah, I also would be interested to learn how you did that...have one 845, make 5 of it...

6/9/2005 3:15:11 AM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Germinate the naked embyo in an agar solution after dividing?

6/9/2005 10:33:16 PM

Buffalo, MN (Billsbigpumpkins@hotmail.com)

floh I wanted to see if I could do it if I ever got a seed like the 845. From the comments, seedling maybe the incorrect term. I planted a seed in a tote and when it sent out a main vine I ran it into a pot and covered it, after about a week I cut it from the mother plant. This was repeated with the first couple of secondaries. This seems to be a much easier method than trying to keep them all winter.

6/9/2005 11:31:29 PM

Cologne / Germany

That way you cloned the plant in an early stage. The trick would be to find the right time to start (during winter I suppose) to have a couple of fresh clones from your seed in May.

6/10/2005 5:07:29 AM

Colo.Spgs.CO. Pikes Peak Chapter @ spacemaster400@earthlink.net

A seed is a seed including an 845,723,846,898...etc...But if the seed produces a vigorous plant with outstanding results, well then it is clone time. I am a veteran clone person , as Have done it many many times here is a link to when things were getting going about a year after we stumbled on to the cloning stuff... {http://www.pumpkinnook.com/howto/clone2.htm }..Well that was back in 1999, or 2000...And I am the guy holding the clone showing how well they can take root on feb 11, 2001.......Wow it seems decades ago...But anyway good luck with your cloning project, and with getting a big one for 2005....JK..

6/10/2005 6:18:47 AM

Syracuse, NY

veddy intedesting...i like the captions in this
article quite a bit. yeah,

6/13/2005 4:43:10 PM