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Can someone please tell me if, on the day after burying all the vine ends and culling off the other pumpkins, you may see a pause in the growth of the one that is kept on the plant. I purposely left immature leaves at the ends of each vine that I anticipated would get a growth spurt similar to what the pumpkin sees. Is the grow juice going there for the time being or have I just grown a 20 pound pumpkin and cut every chance of getting a big one off the plant 2 days ago.
I was seeing appox. 3" on circumfrence/day. Cut and buried Tuesday night. Circumference gain yesterday was 1/4"
Thank you in advance.

7/28/2005 3:01:11 PM

Colorado Springs, Colorado

I don't know anything about your question but maybe you can answer mine? I have a plant and it doesn't have any female flowers on it yet? is there anyway you can prod your plant into producing females or you just have to wait? -behemoth, Colorado Springs, CO.

PS. Sorry I wasn't any help to you. Where abouts Colorado do you grow out of?

7/29/2005 10:36:59 AM

Colorado

I don't know anything about your question other than just 2 years experience.
They say the big ones appear about 10-12 feet out on the main.
The one I have going is only 5.5 out on the main. There was another at about 12 feet and another at about 15 feet. On the secondaries they were appearing at about 8 feet.
Another plant I have going has 3, the first out about 8 feet. Do you have a grower diary with pictures? If not you may want to have a look at mine and make an estimate based on the dates and pictures I have taken. Be patient. Slow and steady wins the race. I had a 65 pound green on last year on a monster plant. The hail beat it nearly to death and the pumpkin (squash) stopped growing. Along the edge of my driveway I had planted another that just sat there all summer long getting not more than 10 leaves. About the first week of September it started turning into a monster. By the end of Sept. it had a 10 pounder (yellow)on it and I used 3/4" PVC pipe and plastic to make a green house cover. At nights I would cover the pumpkin with an old comforter. I picked it Halloween night, even though it was still banana yellow and hadn't turned orange (it was still growing slowly). 110 pounds. The only other advise I can give you is Miracle Grow once a week, about 50 gallons. Louisville.

7/29/2005 11:30:37 AM

Colorado Springs, Colorado

thank you, how are your pumpkins doing now? I have a female flower and it is about to open anytime soon.

8/10/2005 11:03:44 AM