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Buffalo, New York

At what stage do you prune off all the smaller females and leave 1 or 2 females on for good?

i have probably 12 females on my plant altogether with 4-5 of them maybe 6" around. still small but was wondering when to take most of them off.

7/16/2007 6:58:07 PM

Santa Cruz, CA

How many pumpkins do you have going on your main vine? How many on secondaries?

7/16/2007 7:32:47 PM

San Jose [email protected]

once the get beachball size they are pretty sure not to abort, so when you get to that point try to pick one/two on your main vine, at least 10' away from the stump

7/16/2007 7:36:33 PM

Buffalo, New York

i have 2 on my main vine now, at about 15' and 18' out from stump.

on secondaries, i would say i have about 8-10 females.

roughly how big is a beachball......??

7/17/2007 6:59:30 AM

Rexburg, Idaho

Cut the pumpkins on the secondary vines before they ever even open. You do not want them. The sooner they are gone the more energy to the main vine fruit. Those are the ones that you will ultimatly narrow down to one fruit.

7/17/2007 7:43:35 AM

Buffalo, New York

since i only have 1 plant, i plan on leaving more then 1 female on this plant altogether.

i have 7 on as of this morning, 2 on maina nd 5 on different secondary vines.

i will probably leave 1 on the main and 1-2 on secondarys.

this is my first year so i dont plan on trying to reach a world record. i would just love to have a pumpkin 100 pounds and a couple other ones.

7/17/2007 11:34:37 AM

Rhode Island

go get um ron

7/17/2007 4:07:30 PM

Cornell, Wi

Jeremy I dont know if you will grow the heaviest pumpkin but it sounds like youll grow the longest.LOL

7/17/2007 9:15:47 PM

Buffalo, New York

< not laughing

7/18/2007 7:24:45 AM

Cornell, Wi

Sorry Jeremy, Pap started it. Its all in fun

7/19/2007 11:25:33 PM