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My plant has a thicker than usual vine but is a very aggressive healthy plant! At ten feet out the plant formed into a cluster with extra leaves, tendrils and into two well developed vines about half a foot long doing the same thing as both have a pumpkin starting on them (like twins) Do you just chose more or less what road you want to go down and cut off the other and continue it as the main vine or experiment for awhile and see where it leads? Thanks everyone for your input

6/15/2023 7:15:14 AM

Westmoreland, KS

Flat vine or Double vine. Double is generally much better because you can just cut off one and the other vine will grow normally. Flat vine can lead to many different vines which can just stay a clustered mess.

6/15/2023 9:14:34 AM

Syracuse, NY

It depends on what you wanna do, there - I'm sure I've had a double-viner that resulted in a beautiful (300)-pounder and
I saw a picture of it but it did not have an identifying stake by it and I hate to presume info, so, ,no picture on BP, but I recall having cut off the less-appealing vine and its other one grew normally from there-on and who knows if it were ever to be
2 300-pounders or one huger fruit if I had given it all my attention.
Perhaps pollinate both and if one is exceedingly faster-growing,
go with that or maybe they'll be neat-o to have as twins for your purpose. Good Luck, nonetheless---eric g

6/15/2023 4:40:03 PM

Grittyville, WA

I have experimented with leaving both, and indeed set a pumpkin on both, later the pumpkin aborted on one (I think because of a small split?) but the other grew. After the first aborted, the second grew much faster, so I think they were competing for the same resources.

6/15/2023 5:22:54 PM