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Rhode Island

i have often thought that if everything i have read about grafting does influence fruit production? why not graft a pumpkin seedling onto the root stock (seedling) of a green squash?
then follow it up by growing a good quality green squash plant, then grafting several green squash side vines from that plant onto the ag side vines of a growing plant.
id guess two-three grafts on each side of the ag plant.
could this help produce even bigger pumpkins?very possible.

also why not the reverse graft as well????????
pap the pope (lol)

12/10/2014 1:58:58 PM

Lodi, California

Pap,

I could see possibly grafting a squash mainvine onto a developed pumpkin plant and growing a squash off of that, but the connection between the squash and the pumpkin vines would limit growth. So It is my oppinion that growing whole plants would be better. Watermelons are grafted to prevent root disease, but besides that, the graft does not do muck for the plant besides make it susceptible to disease. Since grafting a squash rootstock to a pumpkin scion (or vise versa) does not help with disease, it only hinders the growth of the plant (you wouldn't feel too good if your hand was chopped off and surgically replaced with another that would accept your body). Furthermore, I believe that giant squash have about the same ability to produce as ag's. Giant Showking squash are (as you probably already know) the same exact thing as ag's, but with a homozygous recessive gene for producing green fruit.

12/10/2014 6:27:03 PM

Lodi, California

That said, I hope that you grow a world record squash in 2015 should you grow them.

12/10/2014 6:28:47 PM

Wixom MI.

Pope pap wallace the 1St. Got my vote

12/10/2014 6:31:22 PM

Piqua, Ohio

I've been tinkering with grafting for a few years. If you cut a scion and graft it back to it's rootstock the plant will show more vigor. I'm thinking of trying multiple stumps on a plant next year weather permitting.

12/10/2014 9:26:56 PM

Lodi, California

Please note that my post is based on logic. I do not have any actual experience with grafting.

12/10/2014 11:22:30 PM

Waynesboro, Virginia

The last two world record watermelons were both grafted.

12/11/2014 12:06:22 AM

NE Kansas

Maybe you could graft to one of these zucchini plants...

http://www.knitnut.net/http://www.knitnut.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/62.jpg

12/16/2014 1:03:57 AM

NE Kansas

Click on Images in the search option. It will bring up the picture.

12/16/2014 1:06:54 AM

Eurasia

In the paradise of RI the Wallaces´ garden is full of apple-trees with grafted squash vines hanging down.
This sleeper apple-trees are influenced by the grafting and develop bigger apples on hybrid slips.
Oh, that´s the botanical dream of Michurin, Stalin´s favourite botanist.

12/16/2014 11:45:19 AM