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South East

When u choose a female on a side vine to pollinate, Do u need to take the sidevine furthest out, or maybe the longest and strongest vines?. If u for instance, polinate one on of the first most agressive sidevines. Would the back feeding be strong enough to grow it decent size? Has anybody done this? And what ya get?

7/1/2007 5:09:36 AM

Rhode Island

we never choose a side vine pumpkin. we cull all side vine pumpkins

7/1/2007 7:07:54 AM

Nauvoo, Alabama

most who choose to grow a second pumpkin on the same plant grow it on the first vigorous secondary but they also let that secondary run into a direction that it can also grow its own secondaries. so that first secondary vine that you grow a second pumpkin on is called the first primary. This vine method is called the Wishbone.

7/1/2007 1:16:56 PM

South Bloomfield, Ohio

But you wait until the cull-tossing championship to do so, eh pap?.........lol

7/1/2007 1:44:43 PM

So. Maine

I've set sidevine pumpkins for backups or spares and remove L8er on as long as the primary on the main vine holds up . I have had a time or 2 in the past 18 years that I grew a nice pumpkin on a side vine after the main vine pumpkin split and was too late to grow another on the main.

7/1/2007 11:28:12 PM

Nashville, TN

So far, my largest ones - ended up being on large secondaries... Now that I've learned to encourage root growth before & after every 'kin - and to let 'tertiaries/secondary-secondaries' to growth a few feet - then cut of and bury for more 'stumps'... WATCH OUT!!!!

7/2/2007 7:07:25 AM