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San Jose [email protected]

1. should I raise the vine up to avoid what happened to montyJ (upside down punkin)

AND can I move or slowly coerce the punkin stem to more of a 90 degree angle, the stem is quite long but is going at about 45 degrees

7/26/2005 8:38:24 PM

Indiana

yes, raise the vine up, and move the fruit over a 3 day period into position

Tom

7/26/2005 8:55:20 PM

Follansbee, Wv

While I blame myself somewhat for my perdicament, I think it was bound to happen anyway, since the fruit was determined to be a wheel, well birdbath. Keeping the vine raised more than I did might have helped, but would it cause a blossom end split later in the season? That was my major concern when I discovered the pumpkin was going wheel on me. So keeping the vine raised may help, but I think, along with others who advised me, that you run a greater risk of splitting out the blossom end if it is trying to grow the wheel shape.

7/27/2005 2:06:22 PM

Long Island,New York

Along with Monty's comments I think if its determined to be a tall wheel its way more difficult to allow for a really tall raise in the vine than it is to lay the fruit down. You'd lose oodles of roots trimming them to relieve stress in a tall wheel shape.

7/27/2005 5:42:24 PM