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Farmerville, Louisiana

has anyone tried this on their pumpkin i heard it would work on watermelons with sugar water to sweeten them

5/18/2007 10:07:07 PM

San Jose [email protected]

use cheese

5/18/2007 10:29:32 PM

Ohio

I agree with Gary

5/18/2007 10:49:48 PM

San Diego, Ca.

Brooks, seems like I remember you saying once that you just hooked your waterhose right up to the plant. You remember that? LOL :-)

5/19/2007 12:55:42 AM

Leamington, Ont.

Brooks, keep your "waterhose" to yourself...LOL ;)

5/19/2007 1:53:13 AM

Ohio

ummmmmm, noooooo, me? You got me mixed up with Glenn Andrews I think. Wasnt that him who tried to flood a mole out of a hole and instead flood his 1446 plant that caused his pumpkin to split a couple days later? Glen, Glen Glen, when will you ever learn?

But Ill have the same of what Puddin is drinking.lol ;-)~

5/19/2007 4:45:33 AM

Rhode Island

sounds like one of my older cartoons

5/19/2007 6:35:33 AM

Ohio

no you dont use sugar water. use quik crete mix, gives them that last bit of extra weight.

5/19/2007 8:49:59 AM

Phoenix, AZ

Puddin'

I case you were wondering from all the entertaining responses, don't do it.

5/19/2007 8:52:55 AM

Pataskala,OH

what the heck are you thinking

5/19/2007 11:02:16 AM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Every one knows you wick them with organic virgin cows milk and a saucer.

5/19/2007 12:41:59 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

Shannon, I am surprised that you would give away one of the top secrets...you've broken the code.

Seriously, it is miracle grow at triple strength in a syringe and needle right into the main vine every second day at 6" intervals.

5/19/2007 1:12:54 PM

[email protected]

I used an IC catheter to pump hormones into a pumper once. The vine grew like crazy but the fruit aborted.

5/19/2007 2:23:35 PM

Ohio

OK, heres what to do, take about 4 ft of your main vine and prop it up in the air off the ground approx 3ft to start, you can use sticks on both sides of the vine to hold it up if you prefer.(be careful you dont pull very many roots up, and be extra careful not to snap vine), now once the vine is ready and off the ground, without bending foward at the waist, or touching the vine with any part of your body, try to bend your back back as far as it will go and go underneath the vine, If your hands touch the ground, or you touch the vine with any part of the body or bend over at the waist, YOUR OUT! Now if you make it, lower the vine a few inches. Also try to get a few of your friends to try this and have music playing while doing this, it makes it alot more funner.

5/19/2007 3:48:07 PM

Farmerville, Louisiana

you people are a bunch of dumb asses

5/19/2007 7:04:34 PM

ordinary,VA

lol @ everyone,I love this site i really do!!

Puddin i wouldnt try it but hey, you never know ,even when you know, you never know!

5/19/2007 7:13:44 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Thanks for the compliment Puddin'. You see the thing is every new person that comes to this site knows somebody that knows somebody but never themselves, who at one time grew a huge pumpkin by either wicking it or IV feeding it sugar water. Yet the big dogs know its the soil that feeds the pumpkin not some wicking or IV. We weighed one of Brigitte's Pumpkins that weighed like 700 or 800lbs on a milk scale..The guy swore his Uncle grew them a lot bigger than that in the 70's. Just grin and say wow really. Sort of like we just did with you. No Hard feelings I hope.

5/19/2007 7:38:23 PM

Minnesota

Oh come on Puddin, lighten up.

5/19/2007 7:38:56 PM

Spanish Ontario

Try to pump COKE //CAIN into then then they will do all kind,s of stupid things

5/19/2007 7:48:30 PM

that way <<<<<<

I never tried IV...but I use VII for cucumber beetles all the time.

5/19/2007 10:48:57 PM

Minnesota([email protected])

Puddin',
They're just having fun. It seems the IV thing(also feeding milk) is a myth that's been around a long time. so when this comes up, a lot of kidding comes out. I don't know if anyone has seriously tried IV's. If they did they might not want to admit it. Could an IV be beneficial? I honestly don't know. It may depend on what goes into the IV, and where it's put. Maybe someone that knows plant physiology would give us insight on if an IV would work with plants.
I really like your alias "Puddin'"...that's cool!

5/20/2007 1:21:34 AM

Ohio

PUDDIN! YOU CANT CALL ME THAT!!....Cause thats the name my wife has called me for the last 14 years!!!!

I was just funnin with ya Puddin.

Brooks

5/20/2007 4:26:26 AM

Rhode Island

eddie g, a friend and fellow pumpkin grower from prudence island, r.i., with the help of a retired college professor, tried injecting plant sugars into the stem of his pumpkins.

he did have a pb of low 1,100 and also had one at 1,000 and several much smaller.

not so sure it helped at all. the seed and good management skills would have produced much the same results.

5/20/2007 6:49:41 AM

Western Pa.

I don't inject! But in the past I did experiment with an IV bag that slowly dripped plant food at the base of the plant. Don't really know if it made much of a difference!

5/20/2007 10:31:04 AM

Pataskala,OH

put steroids on an iv and then give it to the pumpkin. lol

5/20/2007 3:14:16 PM

Farmerville, Louisiana

now some of you people are tring to make sense

5/20/2007 7:46:23 PM