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BeeFarmer

New Concord, Ohio

When you cut off a vine or a leaf, do your put anything in the hole that you leave from the vine or the leaf that is left after the cut?

7/5/2002 10:50:56 AM

Alexsdad

Garden State Pumpkins

A stitch in time...Always a good idea on a large cut to seal the leak from the plumbing. I don't do anything to the early pinches but probably should. One of the big guys will give you a better answer then I can! chuck

7/5/2002 12:41:48 PM

thefunnydad

Mineral Virginia

Along the same lines, it looks like on all my nicer pumpkins, there is a rather annoying leaf right at the top of the stem, affecting the angle of the pumpkin. Cut this off or what?

7/5/2002 1:14:07 PM

Alexsdad

Garden State Pumpkins

Not unless your sure this is the one ya want. RIght distance from the stump etc, no use hacking it up unless it sets and showing some good growth.

7/5/2002 3:22:44 PM

Bruiser

Herndon, VA

Like pappy said, leave the leaf alone unless you're sure the pumpkin is a keeper. I don't usually put anything on the cut, they dry out after a day and have not had a problem. For a larger vine cut that keeps oozing after a day or two, I have had success with pruning seal. --Bruiser

7/5/2002 4:38:24 PM

kruger

now Chuck is Pappy and he's got a three hundred pound pumpkin..

7/5/2002 5:39:34 PM

Alexsdad

Garden State Pumpkins

One can dream!

7/5/2002 5:43:06 PM

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