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Long Island

While I was cutting the lawn today I accedentally chopped off about 3 inches of one of my pumpkins main vine. Will it recover? It was where the new growth begins. Everytime something good happens something bad happens. Grrrr

7/28/2001 4:35:32 PM

Myrtle Creek, Oregon

Hi.
Polly and I cut the ends of of all our runners and main vine, then we buried them so all nutrients would go to the pumpkin, a week latter the main vine broke out and started to run again with a side vine running with it and I mean we cut it and buried it what we thought was deep.
so I would'nt worry to mutch ,just waint and see it will come back. <;-)
H-K-J

7/28/2001 4:50:53 PM

Herndon, VA

One the secondaries will likely take off and you can train it as the main. All of my mains were cut off by a groundhog (along with most of my secondaries). Everything has since recovered and the plant is growing nicely. --Bruiser

7/28/2001 9:39:40 PM

Greencastle, PA

Ilost nearly 2' of my 275 Sawtelle to a lawn mower it now has 4-5 2nddaries, the longest has a pollinated female on it.

7/28/2001 11:06:51 PM