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NE Arkansas

Has anyone played around with grafting field pumpkins to say an AG? or any other rootstock? Just an idea I was throwing around in my head, figured if you could get it(the fp)to hold together you could do big things

2/13/2018 12:46:25 PM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

Yes..we did back in the early 2000's and I believe Beachy and Welty did some also. The rootstock of some of the disease and virus resistant field pumpkins completely slowed the growth on the Atlantic Giant until the plant started throwing the secondary root base. So I think the secondary root forming is just as if not more important than the base root.

2/13/2018 1:28:01 PM

Rapid City, SD

jeremy jeremy jeremy....lol

2/13/2018 2:38:04 PM

NE Arkansas

Matt, If you use a AG rootstock, you could seriously blow up some field pumpkins, but if one holds together look out

2/14/2018 11:10:57 AM

Germany

A field pumpkin plant of about 250 sqft size will easily have the power (from its own roots...main and tap roots, and from the leaf surface) to support fruit growth of at least 20 lbs a day. You can easily find out about that by growing a couple of FPs on one plant at the same time. Hence, the rootstock isn´t the limiting factor (actually, I found FP root systems to be quite aggressive and robust), daily gains of an idividdual fruit are probably much more limited by the tissue structure of the vine the fruit is attached to and by the fruit itself (let´s call it the intensity at which this fruit calls for food). Therefore, I don´t believe grafting FP plants on AG would bring any great benefit.

2/14/2018 11:42:55 AM

NE Arkansas

Good info PK... Just throwing ideas around

3/22/2018 11:29:12 PM

Syracuse, NY

here, kick this one around: concerning the Pumpking post---keep the pumpkin itself WARM at all times? i know, yeah, what about summer---well, keep it COOL then---i know IIII work better when i'm not roasting OR freezing, lol! you'd need an air-conditioned sunshade/enclosure, just FP-sized, but SUPER-insulated/warmed/cooled; plus food always makes me happy, (as it would a pumpkin), though, whether i'm hot OR cold, but if 'comfy'?...yesssss...FEED ME NOWWW!)---
just a tawt----eg
could you read this NEXT year, though, so that I can get the WR this year? thx----eg

3/23/2018 12:53:19 AM