Part 2 on growing bad pumpkins
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Running Vines
One of my industrial plant has begun to “ melt ” while the others have not . How long should it take from the metre the plant has several true leaf and is out in the garden until blue runner begin to develop ? Where does this outfit into the scheme of adjudicate how you are doing ? In other words , what is the significance , if any , of a plant starting to run ? Thanks
My Pumpkins began to run between 4 and 5 workweek after plant the seminal fluid . They diverge from flora to embed by a calendar week to 10 solar day . The fastest grow flora does not always grow the largest Pumpkin . George brooks
You are in good shape . You should see a female in two weeks or so . The average agriculturalist wo n’t be pollenate for about 3 or 4 weeks . If your other plant life are n’t vining yet , they will before long . you could set fruit up until the third week of July and still have a block buster autumn pumpkin . I have watch the late flub sail right by the early snort when late August derive . pumkinguy@aol.com
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Yellow Leaves
I’VE HAD MY works IN THE GROUND FOR ABOUT 2 hebdomad AND IT SEEMS AS THE daytime GO BY MY LEAVES ARE TURNING MORE AND MORE YELLOW . I PUT SOME MIRACLE GRO ON THEM BUT THEY ARE STILL YELLOW . ANY prompting ? IS THIS NORMAL ? OTHER THAN BEING OF A YELLOWISH shade THEY SEEM HEALTHY . THEY’VE MADE IT THROUGH THREE THUNDERSTORMS ONE WITH MARBLE SIZE HAIL VIRTUALLY UNSCATHED .
Protecting your plant during a storm
MY PLANTS ARE GROWING directly UP ? THEY ARE ALL ABOUT THREE FEET TALL AND ARE NOT SHOWING ANY signaling OF LAYING DOWN . WE ARE GOING TO GET HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT , OR SO THEY SAY ANYWAY.ANY IDEA ON HOW I CAN PROTECT THEM . SHOULD I connect THEM TO STAKES SO THAT THE WIND WON’T demote THEM . WILL THIS DAMAGE THE industrial plant ? HELP ! ! !
Mound the dirt in a circle around them like the top of my cumulus in the exposure on the entanglement pageboy . This will give them less place between the soil and the plant . I wed them off by place two promiscuous loops of soft jute twine around the vine tied to bet one on each side of the vine about 15″ out . unremarkably the Dominicus causes them to soften in the daytime and they settle to the earth . I always have about a 6″ wall around them so maybe I ’m not visit the problem . George Brooks
Split vine
We ’ve had thunderstorms every Nox for the past week . This morning I went out into the patch and found that two of my plants had a split in the vine , one on a primary coil , the other on a junior-grade . I mounded filth over the splits in the promise of keeping out disease . I have two question : First , were the split due to all the rain , or something else ? Second , will my repair job do any good ? The vines look good for you otherwise . Thanks !
split in vine are bad but if the schism is lengthwise it may have a minimal force . lay to rest it and you should survive O.K. pumkinguy@aol.com
pelting
OK what do I do now ? Our local weather people are predicting RAIN for the next few days . 🙁 What will this do to all my plants ? I have some that have pumpkin vine starting on them and some that are just starting to bud , should I cover them or take my opportunity ? I hold out in Northern Calif. one hour north of San Fransico . I will take any advice that anyone has to give . I gauge I should ask if the bad happens can I plant again and have time before Oct ?
If heavy rain floods the interior of the female blossom that would not be undecomposed . If you see a female that looks like it will give tomorrow , put something over it to keep out the rain . Also do the same for a few manly flowers that look ready to open . The next daybreak , when it is raining , bring out the female person rapidly , uncover the newly unfold male , take an creative person brushwood ( soft bristled ) and transfer pollen from the males to the middle of the distaff flower….you have bridge player pollinate ! ! Cover the distaff back up so rain does n’t get in . Uncover in a day or two . It is too belated to start new plants now , but you may keep pollinating the one you have for another calendar month . pumkinguy@aol.com
rainwater will not bruise your pumpkins , but hail will . last twelvemonth I mislay all my plants to hail . so hope for rain . if it is realy wet you may need to spray with some fungiside .
Distance to pollinate
What is your vox populi about pollinate a distaff heyday on the main vine at 6 feet from the ancestor ? ? I was told that the large pumpkins seem to be at 10 to 15 groundwork from the root and am tempted to foot this prime and wait for another female person to develop further out . I am in southern Ontario and we usually do n’t pollinate until the 1st or 2nd hebdomad in July . I have only 3 manly flowers candid to practice for pollination at this metre . Can anyone give me a good reason whether I should use this one or not ? ? Appreciate any help you could give me .
The common opinion has always been to pollinate 10 to 15 foot out . It was think that you demand a large enough plant life to support a big pumpkin . Lately , some of the World Record holders have been much close . Don Blacks 884 was less than 6 ft out on a side vine . I would ready everything that comes along….if it looks honorable . Later when they are beach orb size , pick the good one . Sometimes when you snap off pumpkin vine it submit a while for another to set . pumkinguy@aol.com
Mixing chemicals
About a week ago I ask if anyone had any data about mixing fertilizer , glitch killer and anifungal agentive role in the same sprayer and spraying it all on at one clip . As an model 2 tablespoons of miracle grow , 4 tablespoon of melted sevin , and 3 tablespoons of daconil in two gallons of water in one Hudson Sprayer . And then putting it all on at one fourth dimension . I incline to be otiose and have go on to do this with no big effect I can see . Does anyone have any comment ? No one did the last time I ask and I wondered if anyone would give it a blastoff this time around ?
I venture I have no idea if your mixture is bad or not . I would register the directions and count for information about not treating plants with another chemical substance after treating with the give chemical substance . I guess as a second response , I would mix a small good deal . Try it on one plant . Wait a week and verify that nothing spoilt happens and then try the whole thing after you know it works . Another thing I would be concerned about is the generation of noxious gases . But , since you ’re probably doing this outside where thing are well ventilate , I ’m not sure you even have a problem on that front . I ’d examine it and see what happens . Experiment . Use coarse horse sense . Be cautious .
I would not recommend mix fertilizer with other chemicals , it only increase the danger of trauma . It may also reduce the effectiveness of one or more of the chemical . you could mix Fungicides and Insecticides but only after checking a compatibility chart . Many chemical substance will not harm plants alone but may kill them when mixed with others .
Be sure not to kill off your local bees . You must have heard that we lose about 60 % of the native bee through the hard winter here in westerly NY . Pollination will be a trouble for many agriculturist this class . Sevin is very toxic to all bee and if enough gets into your female blossom the bees will not inspect . BEE CAREFUL ! Ray Waterman / WPC
I spoke with a voice from Ortho today about mixing Sevin and Daconil in the same sprayer for use on pumpkins . They recommend not doing it as it can be toxic to the plant , it can burn up the plant , step in with the plant ’s growth and boil down its productivity . Also when you mix up a deal of Sevin or Daconil it begins immediately to break down . It is in force for about 2 days and one hebdomad at the longest . There is an 800 number if you have other question about their products . That numeral is 1 - 800 - 225 - 2883 . I guess I ’ll be mix up more deal and little batches of spray since I had been using my mixture for long than a calendar week and aggregate Sevin and Daconil in one sprayer . Lubadub in PA
Should I pick off the bloom ?
I am in central Ohio and my plants are vining nicely , about 3 - 5 feet long , and have bragging , green leave-taking . They are also raise a fair number of bloom – almost all male . A friend say I should peck off all of these until I ’m ready to allow it fructify fruit . Is this true ? If so , any special mode to do it so as not to injure the plant , make an entry point for disease , etc . ? Thanks .
Never clean off blooms , you never know if that is the only one that will go under this years . make up one’s mind which one to keep when they are bighearted than a basketful ball and shinney . They bloom also start attracting bees to your plant .
It is not necessary to pick off early male blooms , they will not hurt anything . If you get a good seem female person early , I would pollinate it . Don Black ’s World Record bearer was only a couple pes out on the vine . localize everything you could and pick out the best one at the beach ball stage . pumkinguy@aol.com
Vine wiliting due to bugs
Has anyone had any trouble with their vine wilt when they first start to get pumpkins on them?Well I have recede two nice vines like this . They begin to droop and slowly die , I dig one up today and abridge it open to find picayune whitened louse in the area between the root word , and the top of the land . It ’s not the traditional vine borer , I have dealt with them these are in the undercoat and are bolt down them without any outward sign of terms like the vine borer does . I am starting to spray with mythoxchlor(I do n’t fuck how to import it)instead of liquid sevin and diazanion wich I was using . I have never had these bug before.have any of you and if so what will bring .
Have seen all sorts of critter , above and below the ground … .. Diazinon on the soil in the arena of the integral root zone should knock them out .
Pinching vines
After everything I ’ve say , seen and heard , I ’m having a little problem get the picture this concept of symmetricalness between vine and yield increase . The conclusion I have number up with is that when you have a sealed number of leave or vine distance and you have a yield or two picked out you pinch off the remnant of the main and secondary vines and all other females to hive off most of the growth to the fruit . Dose this mean the industrial plant will not grow in length anymore and change over most of its energy to the yield . I have a 21 ft . main vine and many side vines up to 11 foot . long . I also have a pumpkin vine closing in on the size of soccer ball after 12 daytime old . The ledger I have shows a quote from Howard Dill that say ” After the primary vine reaches 20 ft . he pinches off the tips and side shoots and breaks off all other female to disport all resources to the yield ” . That sounds like what I should do now but I ’m not indisputable because my plant dosen’t hail close to overcompensate the 1000 sq.ft . allowed for it . If my plant is large enough now I would like to get a other start on yield growth . I am part of a group of about 6 cub grow this year and all of us have come up with a dissimilar ending on this subject . Would someone be so kind as to clarify this matter for us .
A controversial practice , you will get several opinions . If you have several plants try one or two and leave some alone . George Brooks
It sound like you are doing just fine . People that are two week behind Joe ’s stats are also o.k. . Late June and July is the time to sic yield . Every grower is slightly different on the pruning and fruit set practice . Some do n’t clip at all … .. but I would say most do to varying degrees . I will give you some information which is by no means the gospel , but typical of what some grower do … … .Fruit adjust 6 to 20 feet out usually on the principal vine , but not always . Don Black had a World Record bearer on a side vine . If you do not see a promising female person on the main vine , by all means , pollinate a side vine . Do n’t be in a with child hurry to pull of the relief of the young fruit . Pumpkins can abort when they are the size of a beach ballock … .. what to look for in a newly localize fruit … .. Daily outgrowth and a glistening fruit . If the newly set yield slows in growth or loses it ’s refulgency , it is probably ready to abort . So set a bunch and pick out the best at beach lump microscope stage . Many prune their side vines at about 12 feet . They may also stop the main vine 10 to 15 invertebrate foot past the pumpkin . If you prune everything too early and have a fruit abort , you are out of commercial enterprise . The flora will continue to grow after fruit readiness . The root system will continue also , but the rate of stem growth may slow after set .
Several bugs that look like flies
I have noticed several bug that are about half an column inch long , crimson and black in colour , and when they vanish they depend like bees . They only hang up around the pumpkins leaves . What are they and should i be appall ? … I have been apply a seven and boro mixture to the plants on a weekly groundwork . Just as a side note ! I have not seen one bee this class ( only bumble bees ) Last year there were hundreds of bee around the pumpkin flowers . ( I hold out in Ingersoll which is between Toronto and Detroit ) I have drop lots of time hand polinating this year . Good lot to everybody … .. It ’s do or die fourth dimension .
SOUNDS LIKE THE VINE - BORERS ARE WORKING YOUR PATCH ! ! Those bee like critters are none other than the Squash - vine - woodborer ( adult form )
Beginner Question
My plants are not holding their flower , and the ones that do hold are all Male with no female in site . I had one Cucurbita pepo start but it is now turning yellow and looks like it is going to go . The pumpkins in my other patch are starting to change state orange already and they are only the size of a small basketball game . What kind of fertilizer should I be using on both orbit , and how often ? Is there something I can do to keep them growing ? I will take advice from anyone who is not sick of my novice interrogative sentence . Thanks to all .
Eight to 10 weeks after seed start , the first female bloom will appear . They ’re easy to distinguish because they have a modest pumpkin at their al-Qaida . If you want to get a jump on your competitor , you ’ll necessitate to hand - pollinate the flowers . In the early break of the day , locate a impertinently opened virile blossom . Pick it and remove the out prime petals , expose the stamen and fresh pollen . Locate a newly opened distaff flush and lightly dab the stigma ( internal part ) of the female blossom with the pollen - laden stamen . Getting a pumpkin vine set as early on as potential , preferably before July 10 , is central . The earlier you set a pumpkin , the longer it has to grow until crop . Since these monsters can gain 25 pounds a day , losing 10 days in the early part of the season could put you well down the tilt at your local autumn pumpkin weigh - off . High daylight temps ( 90 ’s or above ) will decrease the success of female flowers . During the growing season , most fertility motive of autumn pumpkin can be contact by apply piddle - soluble plant food once or twice a week over the entire plant country . Give seedlings a fertiliser that punctuate phosphorus , such as 15 - 30 - 15 . Shift to a more balanced formula , such as 20 - 20 - 20 , once fruit are set . By late July , use a formula that stresses K , such as 15 - 11 - 29 . I put on H2O - soluble fertilizer at the rate of one to two pounds per week per flora from fruit plant until the end of the spring up time of year . Some competitory growers will err on the side of overfertilization . But too much fertilizer can spite more than supporter . If the pumpkins start growing too tight , they will literally tear themselves from the vine and explode . A very fine agriculturalist in New England told me , “ dull and easy gain ground the raceway . ” Remember this whenever you finger the urge to overfertilize .
Brown spots on the farewell
A few day ago I notice a few brown slur on the stems of some of my leaves . I suspect they are eggs of some type so I scrape them off with my fingernail . They are slimly smaller than a sesame source ( about 1 - 2 mm ) and moderately round . I ’ve seen a single , a couple , and a cluster of four , but none more than that . I have no melodic theme what they are . Can anyone facilitate me ? Are these some change of woodborer ?
The bollock you see are credibly squash racquets bug . Appleton , Wisc . may be far enough magnetic north to exclude vine woodborer spraying . Check with your local ag . people . If vine borers are in your region , you must spray each workweek or your plant will in all likelihood be destroyed . You must spray until Aug. if they are around . pumkinguy@aol.com
I LIVE NEAR ST PAUL IN THE ST CROIX RIVER VALLEY . I AM FARTHER NORTH THAN YOU ARE AND I HAD problem WITH THE VINE BORER LAST YEAR SO I WOULD SUGGEST SPRAYING FOR THEM . I JUST FOUND A HOLE IN ONE OF MY VINES YESTERDAY . SEE WHAT I GET FOR GOING ON holiday ! ! I GOT SOME LIQUID SEVIN AND spray LAST nighttime . IF YOU DON’T HAVE THEM YET I WOULD START SPRAYING ANYWAY .
I surmise that they might be “ Squash - Vine - Borer ” eggs ? ? ? Athough iv’e heard some the great unwashed exact BORER eggs as being BLACK ? ? ! iv’e always encounter them as brown ( a copper color colour ! ! ! ! ! ! ) they incline to be oval and matted ! ! also they tend to be singlar , and not clustered together ! ! ! if you find a cluster of gold colorise roundish bollock , hazard are they belong to the – SQUASH microbe and not the SQUASH VINE BORER ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! The Squash bug is that beetle lookin grayish fauna ( it look like a mini turtle ) Borer eggs are usually found under the leaves , under the stem or the Borers favorite patch ! ! ! ! ! ! ! under the ends of the fresh vine growth ! ! ! ! ! ! ! The grownup bore bit herself is a streamlined looking almost bee - like moth ! ! ! ! She moves around almost with a sneaky like natural process ! lookin for the perfect bit to deflower your growin season ! ! ! ! ! ! ! The vine bore bit is n’t like a regular ” fluttering around moth ” ! ! she ’s quick and precise ! ! ! ! ! ! ( she knows what s she s doin ) AND SHE ’S TOUGH ! ! ! Iv’e wacked more than my contribution of them over the yr ! ! and the usually get up and take flight forth ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! PLEASE start out SPRAYING WITH “ SEVIN ” ASAP BEFORE IT ’S TOO LATE ! ! ! dear luck!!!!!!!!!1
turn trouble
OK guys another dubiousness for the pro ’s . Here are the stats : Live : Sonoma Ca . one hour north of SanFransico Weather : foggy mornings 70 - 90 degree days water supply : 2O minutes three times a week on a dripping system Fertilizer : Miricle grow every 11 - 14 daylight Pumpkin ejaculate type : Store bought “ BigMax Pumpkin ” Plant distance : Around 12 - 14 feet retentive Here is the question … I have manful flowers , female flowers , and all the things needed . I have taken your advice and dot with a soft brushwood and also we have a gross ton of bees . All of the females , about 2 - 3 per vine , have fruit on them but the yield is Yellow , not fleeceable like I am used to . It is not like they are ill and dying they are growing every day and show no signs of illness . All three plants are the same path , it is not just one . Am I doing something amiss or is this normal . My little pumpkins that I planted from manifestly old seed I had have two pumpkins starting and they are green . I am so confused . Help me please ! Thank You
You are not crazy . You are trade with two unlike types of pumpkin . The Big Max and Prizewinner are in the same family as the Atlantic Giant ( Cucurbita Maxima ) they are often yellow except for squash . Regular field autumn pumpkin are Cucurbita Pepo and begin out green . The two are unlike family and will not cross pollinate . pumkinguy@aol.com
How Molva molva does a female peak last ?
I miss one of the female bloom in the flower stage . Question : What is the pollination time frame for a distaff flower ? Can the daily heat keep down this duration of time ? The flower must of blossom yesterday ( Thursday ) and today the heyday petals are wilting . I will assume the pollination sentence has past due to the 85 + level heat .
I believe it is only a few hours ( 4 ? ) and seems to be accelerated by heat . George
My personal experience has been that the females only stick around open for a few hours in the morning ( soon after dawning . ) The hot it is , the less time the less meter they will be candid . When our temp dropped back into the sixty I discover that a couple of my females stayed open almost all solar day . That ’s NE Wisconsin though … your climate may alter . This advice and 25 centime will get you a detached refill at Subway for a limited meter . 🙂
ordinarily a distaff flower will be assailable and viable for one mean solar day . Actually a half 24-hour interval is believably more like it so get out there in the morning and do your thing ! ! ! ! !
Blossom moulder
I live about 30 min . due east of San Francisco Calif. in a pocket-size township scream Moraga . For the past couple of years I have been try out with smallervarieties of pumpkinsin training for an attempt at an Atlantic Giant . The soil conditions in this neighborhood abound with very impenetrable Adobe Clay . It is my understanding this character of the Great Compromiser soil can be very nutrient robust once broken up . I have rectify the dirt by till in various type of stuff in prize locations . These amendment include garden compost / with grease , cow manure / with dirt or both at a ratio of 25 % to 50 % amendments to territory . Having reviewed the article on heyday rot I have also added gypsum to the soil and experiment with the rate and frequency at which I apply water . no matter , I am still experiencing a grievous toll as a result of Blossom Rot . This not only fall out with my Cucurbita pepo but all other squash harvest . The residual of my garden which includes just about everything under the sun , is level-headed and robust . The next step of course is to send a dirt sample to the local Ag . Dept . , but I was question if anyone could facilitate me out with some thoughts or advise !
I live in westerly New York in an area that would be classified as having very heavy clay . I too , lost most of my pumpkin vine last year when they split at the blossom end , but I do n’t guess the remains dirt had anything to do with it . The splitting occured late in the grow season . I believe my autumn pumpkin were around the 225 to 250 quid stove . At the clip , I was fecundate very intemperately . Many congius of 15 - 30 - 15 miracle grow about every 4 years . My speculation was that I just plain over did it with my plant food program . This twelvemonth , I ’m go to back off a minuscule and see what happens . practiced Luck !
Although you have add gypsum ( Calcium Sulfate ) , it can be slow to react and take up by the plant is not rapid . embark on a program using Calcium Nitrate and I believe your problem will dissappear . Ca nitrate is water soluble like Peters and will be taken up now by the works .
Can UFO ’s effect my autumn pumpkin ?
During the Fourth of July weekend a UFO was spot hovering above my garden and near the pumpkin works in particular . I did not actually see this ( I was aside at the lake ) , but my neighbor who cover the event is a very true witnesser as she was actually abduct by a UFO in 1977 . In any compositor’s case , she swears the fast-flying object dart some variety of irradiation or ray directly at the autumn pumpkin . My pumpkin has been act strangely since then . It now refuses to wassail anything other than noose and restorative , and has late been demand access to some of the racier transmission line TV channel . It joined a street gang . It has explicate an insalubrious pastime in a nearby rutabaga , and expects me to pay tuition so it can attend a telemarketing school . I am troubled . My experience with UFO ’s is quite limited . I wonder if that holiday sojourn might somehow be link up to my pumpkin ’s recent aberrant conduct . Some of you are scientists . You probably went to college . Maybe you could explicate what is going on . This is rigorously an urban autumn pumpkin . There has been no in - breeding so I ’m rule out recessive genes as a potential perpetrator .
What is the current record for an Urban pumpkin ? I retrieve you articulate that the GUPGA , by merit of the fact that there are no due and anyone can be a penis , is the big pumpkin system in the world . So as one of your fellow members , I ’d just like to say … 1 . control your pumpkin vine patch up for pod . and 2 . Please keep pick out your medical specialty .
Do n’t countenance that UFO - raise autumn pumpkin fool you . It now has an intelligence information not quite delimitate by human standards . You ought to take it to S.E.T.I. ( before their regime financial support terminate ) and endeavor to build link with the Mother Pumpkin . Never underestimate the power of the Mother Pumpkin … she need her “ little dumpling ” back … no dubiousness about it . I ’d have your pumpkin have that turnip cabbage family relationship ( commend … there ’s no benefit or entitlements ) and let them both run off to telecommerce school . A morsel of advice … don’t pay the tuition … you could pretty much walk in off the street , say you require to make cold-blooded margin call to the great unwashed who do n’t desire to talk to you … and BINGO … you’ve get a Book of Job ! I ’ve form in public tv … I should lie with ! I ’d steer absolved of the street ring , though . There ’s a reason why they ’re called “ The Smashing Pumpkins” … and you thought giant autumn pumpkin growing was a sportswoman . In urban area , it ’s the size of the “ splat ” ( i.e. disemboweled pumpkin ) that count … besides , look what find to that banding member !
A footnote from the trail pumpkinologist in the country : I am now coquette the theory that the unexplained bacterial growth that has onset my giant pumpkin patch is not due to excessive moisture enhancement nor lack of topsoil aireation ; after recent reports of ufo sightings in and around the horticultural strongholds of america it is my notion that microbiological exterrestial phenomona has been invading us , and unlike myself it might be healthy . The invaders have disregard the eggplant , sweet banana tree and cherry peppers , as well as the jalapeno , but made waste of the blue lake edible bean and lease not talk about the noonday onions . Such clew may have provided sixth sense to a remember world , but after hours of tireless inquiry , I lose my genial financial support . besides , it was dinosaur Nox on the lounge lizard channel . In windup , I have decided that if the pumpkin vine do n’t grow this year , I will move to the locale trophy shoppe and purchase me a monogramed blue palm , which in a thousand years will become compost anyway . please appreciate the promiscuous side of all of this , my intent is wittiness not abuse : )
Turned Yellow and died ( vine )
My two best vines turned jaundiced and die . What could be causing that ? What are the respectable sprayer to use for this ? Is it more hard to acquire bad pumpkin vine in Central Illinois , than place with cooler summertime ? Can you irrigate too much ? Would appreciate help ! Still trying to develop other vines . My pumpkins are about three Irish punt now .
tick off the roots for maggots .
Hail storm
Can anyone give me some advice please ? Last night we had some hail and although the leaves sustained some terms , I suppose they will be ok . However , the pumpkin ( about the size of a basketball)has some dent in it where hailstones have scatched away tiny musical composition of skin . I hope it will bring around over on its own but I wonder if I should put something on it . ? ? I did n’t have a shade over it yet and I am kicking myself all around the pumpkin vine patch ! ! Any suggestion would be appreciate . Thankyou .
I’D KEEP FUNGISIDE ON THEM . I HAD A SIMILAR PROBLEM LAST YEAR AND
I DIDN’T hump ANYTHING ABOUT FUNGISIDE YET AND I suffer ALL MY PUMKINS BECAUSE THEY ROTTED ON ME FROM SOMETHING THAT I’M SURE get INTO THEM FROM THE HAIL First Baron Marks of Broughton .
Some books call for make a paste out of Captan WP ( fungicide ) . This seems to be efficacious on stem damage , and skin excision . Once the library paste dries , the rainwater does n’t seem to wash it off easily . I hear it last twelvemonth on a stem at the understructure of the fruit . The stem had jump to get mushy . After I applied the library paste , the expanse seemed to bring around up . Dan
Side vine at the ME vine with a pumpkin at the node .
I ’ve noticed that at each of my set yield , a subaltern vine take off . Now I would guess that this petty vine will stimulate havoc as the pumpkin develop . Should it be swerve off and when should that be done ? What should be done to derogate the shock of pruning ? Any advice would be appreciated .
The side vine that come off the main vine near the pumpkin can definitely cause stem tenseness problems . I was look at mine this morning and was think the same matter . you could condition it off but eventually it will cause problems down the road . you may leave it on until it becomes a problem and receive some welfare from the photosynthate that those leaves make . I ca n’t narrate you for sure if the plant is accent out more by removing a large vine as opposed to absent it when it is small-scale . I think I will forget mine on for a couple more week then cut it off . pumkinguy@aol.com
crushed vine
Well , here ’s a good one for ya’ll . Today as I was walking in my pumpkin patch , one of the heaviest , foul animals ever to set on my garden was at it again , it stepped on one of my biggest unripened squash vines . Yes , that terible critter was ME ! I heard a faint cracking auditory sensation and looked down to see my big hoof on top of my prize vine , Wouldn’t it kill ya . Anyway , I estimate you know what my question is , What can be done?I do n’t believe that I hurt it forged because it did n’t split open anywhere that I can see . I did n’t put all of my weight on it luckily , has anyone else done this ? and if it did n’t split open will recover ? SIGNED BIGFOOT
I would cover the broken region with some soil … … believe it or not , but it can have somewhat of a curative effect . pumkinguy@aol.com
word picture of a vine bore
I WAS WONDERING IF ANYONE HAD A PICTURE OF THE VINE BORER MOTH ? IF YOU DO I’D LIKE TO SEE WHAT I’M calculate FOR SO IF I DO SEE ONE I KNOW IT . THANKS
I trust I ’ve seize one of the critters ( and some other cool looking gray hemipteran which just happen to be run around my patch . ) I ’m working on get image to Dan , but did n’t have terrific luck tonight . I ’ll try again in the morning with some different equipment . I ’m hoping someone can positively name these critters . I just sprayed Sevin Wednesday night and the little b***ch is back tonight . I suspect it was that fearful thunderstorm we had last dark that washed away my Sevin . I may have to re - apply some this weekend , but I was hoping to get in another loony toons of Captan . ARG !
For entropy on the Squash Vine Borer . Goto “ http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~ohioline/hyg-fact/2000/2153.html ” They have a picture but it ’s in black & clean , Also some good info . After you see the picture you will know it when you see it . It ’s a very brite metalic green and crimson with clear wings . I detest to see it . I get horrible vision of wilted vines . borzy@ovnet.com
shade
How do you build up a covering for your pumkin ? How much of the flora and pumkin do you cover ? Me and my Husband have 2 pumpkin works with 2 skilful size pumpkins on both , and a whole bunch of little ones . When do you start rationalise the other pumkins and flowes ? how do you make up one’s mind which pumkin to keep ? Sorry for all the head but this is just or 2nd year at judge to grow big I .
Side vine of 12 foot or so are big enough and you could pinch the ends . If your primary vine is 30 or 40 fett out and is a least 10 to 15 feet past the Cucurbita pepo that can be pinched too . third vine off the side vine can be pilfer out . Measure the pumpkins in circumference with a fabric or plastic measuring tape … … mensurate them again in about a week and give the fast cultivator . you may get out more than one on the plant if they are on separate branches . If they are on the same offset and are near each other , make the decision and get out the knife … .. it is not easy . pumkinguy@aol.com
Just not growing
I ’m having a problem with my pumpkins reaching the size of it of a association football bollock then halt growth and getting lenient . I have just started getting autumn pumpkin to this level but have lost the first 2 . I require to chastise the problem before it gets too late . We survive in Sacramento Ca . where temps . can be as high as 100 + for scant period with mediocre day temp of 88 . The night are coolheaded , 60 norm . The works is big and healthy . We water with soakers hose every other day and fert . weekly with 15 - 30 - 15 but just switch to 18 - 18 - 21 Miracle Gro solution . The pumpkins appear normal just stay growth and get piano . Could we be over tearing or what ? ! ? ! This is a great hobby , but it can make you crazy when all of your eggs are in one basket .
You are doing nothing untimely … .. temporary worker over 90 will induce your fruit to abort . Is there any chance that you will see a few years that top out in the 80 ’s ? 90 is the magic number….over 90 and you will have little luck with fruit set . If there is no luck of a cooling movement I will give you an data-based fruit Seth technique that I am work around with … … no warranty for my results are not in yet . When you have a 100 degree day , there is a good luck field temps are 110 to 115, … … bring a thermometer out there , you will be astonied . Anyway , I had a beautiful female person on a side vine a few days ago . Forecasts said we would hit 95 which is a trusted abort temp . I take a wall o water , which is a three-fold wall plastic gadget usually used for frost security on tomatoes . Basically you put it around the love apple plant and fill it with water and it protect the plant . Now , we surely did n’t want to make the plant hotter so I placed the wall o water around the distaff bloom and occupy the twist with ice block . It in reality book 16 Ezra Loomis Pound of water ice cubes . I put a recording thermostat in with the female and temps went down to 48 degrees … . too coolheaded …… but the temporary worker slowly climbed as the water ice melted . By 1 pm the methamphetamine hydrochloride was mostly move but temps were around 80 . By the remainder of the day it maxed out at 89 . Another recording thermostat was outside , but under the shade of the leaves….it maxed out at 100 degrees . We cool the female person by 11 degrees and it was even cool before the ice melt . I spray painted the outside of the wall o piss flat white to reflect sunshine and put shading over the wallo water and shading on the west side of the wall o water to reflect the afternoon sun . I used white styrofoam for shading …… . retrieve shading alone will not do it . At 100 , shaded field temps will be 100 or more . I would do this the day of pollination and the Clarence Day after . Again no warrant for my results will not be make love for a calendar week or two . You may be able-bodied to retrieve of another way to cool the female but unless you may get fruit temporary worker in the 80 ’s you will have no luck . pumkinguy@aol.com
Train a petty vine
I was inquire , can a subaltern vine be trained to take over for a disordered main vine?I detect I nad a low main vine this morning , and I thought I could let the secondary nearest the faulting grow out around it . I had a ground hog bite the ending off of one last class , and I tried this . I still got a 116 pound Cucurbita pepo off the vine , but I wonder what it would have been on the main vine?So my enquiry is , If I od this will the pumpkin do as well on the subaltern as on the main vine ?
A side vine can take over and 800 pound pumpkins have been develop on side vine so keep plugging off .
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