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Georgia

Lets say I have a female at about 6 feet on the main and the mains still growing good and with our weather here I got till about the tenth to pollinate. Should I cut that one off or leave it and wait for a pumpkin further out to pollinate?? Thanks for any answers.

6/26/2007 8:53:04 AM

President - GPC

Take a gentle peak inside the growing tip end....I bet you'll see another female that will be out a few feet farther.....count the leaves, that will give you a good idea where it may end up. More plant behind the pumpkin makes sense that you will end up with a bigger end result....Grow'em BIG

6/26/2007 9:23:37 AM

President - GPC

Last night I culled a baby off of DubYaH....500 Wallace, it was real hard to do, and the baby showed snout already at the size of a nickel, cant wait to let one run on this plant......but we still have time....Master Yoda says.....slow and sure wins the race.....

6/26/2007 9:26:08 AM

Georgia

Good advice and down the vine there is another little female growing at about ten or eleven feet. I think Ill see what happens and hopefully pollinate everything I can then decide. Im just not into partial birth abortion so culling one alreadys tuff.

6/26/2007 9:51:33 AM

That was the weirdest pumpkin/people analogy I've ever heard. And by the way, culling a female before flowering would be more like taking eggs out of a woman's body, since no fertilization has occured in either instance. Partial birth abortion would be like cutting the seeds in half upon harvest. Get your repro right.

6/26/2007 6:31:20 PM

Rhode Island

we pollinate as many as three on the main starting at 12 ft out. we do not cull until all three pollinations have had a week to show us what they can do.

besides, if you cull just because you pollinated a second or third farther down the main what do you do if the one you leave aborts?

6/26/2007 7:41:04 PM

Owensboro, Ky.

Pap, let me see if this novice has this correct...pollinate 2 or 3 at least 12' out. Cull after #2 or #3 is at least 7 days old....decision made upon ???? position to vine, shape, growth rate, color, combination of all??? Thanks for all your continuous input. Peace, Wayne

6/26/2007 9:28:32 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

That's it. Pollinate three & measure each of them on day #7. If all are otherwise equal, the one that made the largest 7 day gain is the keeper.

6/27/2007 12:27:56 AM