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Hey all, it's my second year growing and I have 2 pumpkins that I'm trying to get to Oct 20th here in Ohio. One looks good and the other also looked great until today. We've had about a week of cloudy, chilly rainy weather here and I've been trying my best to keep everything aired out and dry, but I noticed the vine has split and is getting soft. The split is located on the main vine a few inches to one side of the stem. It is a few inches long and is kinda soft. I scraped away the really soft stuff, but how do I move forward? How do I get a picture up?

9/27/2018 6:54:41 PM

Bloomington, IN USA

You need to create a diary & post a pic of your problem.
A split isn’t necessarily a problem but if there is disease there it is a different situation.
You need to carve or scrape down to tissue that doesn’t look diseased.
Then spray Hydrogen Peroxide or Isopropyl alcohol & dust it with Sulfur powder.
If it doesn’t look like you can get to tissue that isn’t diseased, cut the main vine off.
I tend to err on the safe side as I have had a large pumpkin go down from disease in the vine.
You’ve got quite a way to go to Oct 20.
Is MoCo Montgomery county?
You could take your Pumpkin earlier to Hamilton Oct 12.

9/27/2018 7:57:22 PM