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Grandfield Oklahoma

I had this thought and i figured i would ask!
i have seen trees and other things have two limbs or vines that are touching each other grow into one limb or vine.

My thought was - if you had two vines laying next to each other, like two vines from different plants would they bond or feed each other and if they did would the sap from one kind benifit the other or add more sap to the other vine?
Think of the possibilities behind the concept - two vines feeding one pumpkin ??????

Larry Landon

2/26/2005 11:23:23 AM

Grandfield Oklahoma

Oh Yeah! if this works and gives somone a new record pumpkin just say thanks and give me one seed from it!

2/26/2005 11:26:43 AM

Rexburg, Idaho

nope, won't work

2/26/2005 12:03:27 PM

Ontario, Canada.

Grafting: This has been talked about before. Take a look at the link below. I hope this helps Larry. You may test this now with some early started seeds.

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/MsgBoard/ViewThread.asp?b=3&p=60242

2/26/2005 12:14:01 PM

Grandfield Oklahoma

i think im missunderstood. not graftin just joining like siameese growth - let them bond together as one and then continue growing, i see it in trees and other plants naturaly

2/26/2005 12:59:55 PM

Minnesota([email protected])

I would think if this were possible, it would take a long period of time, for a natural graft to occur. Longer than one growing season, I would think. But what do I know(LOL).
You are thinking "outside the box, elshadow. Interesting question.

2/26/2005 1:33:15 PM

Western NY

i'll give it a try this year if i remember to. i suppose the worst that could happen is you rot part of a vine

2/26/2005 3:17:10 PM

Montoursville, PA

Meanwhile back at the ranch many of the ranch hands are removing every other secondary as well as extra leaves that may damage each other.

There is much talk of plant size reduction, to possibly slow growth and eliminate cracks and splits due, to oversized canopies possilby over feeding the single fruit we push the daylights out of, looking, for the top weights.

2/26/2005 6:40:57 PM

C N Y

try grafting a vine onto the blossom end....ohhhh, the possibilities! i hope someone gets it to work, the
blended-vines thing...eric

2/27/2005 12:49:05 AM

Paradise Mountain, New York

My next door neighbor has done a lot of grafting in the past. The old fellow is pretty sharp and very smart still at 85. I'll have to walk over and ask him if he things you could plant two pumpkins close to each other and join the mains together and have one pumpkin on it. I guess it never hurts to ask a pro.

2/27/2005 2:42:46 AM

Roanoke Il

3 years back I tried two join a vine from another plant to a different plant with no success never tried to connect two mains together. The only advantages I could see with doing this is if it was a colder than normal year or ones soil wasn't up too snuff or maybe bug or other problems that provent a plant from giving the pumpkin all it needed.
Under normal conditons I would think one would just blow up there pumpkins one after another, with two stumps or two main vines feeding one pumpkin. Mark

2/27/2005 8:28:00 AM