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Post by stevenvance on Aug 13, 2009 18:21:36 GMT -5
We've grown various plants over the years, but only once before have we grown pumpkins, though my wife remembers them from when she was growing up.
We are growing some sugar pumpkins and some that were labeled "jack-o-lantern" pumpkins. The 'jack-o-lantern' variety is growing very aggressively (of course), and as I was cutting it back in a few places, I discovered it was also rooting aggressively at about 1/2 to 2/3 of the nodes, all along the vines.
The sugar pumpkins don't appear to be doing this, though I didn't do an exhaustive search, nor did the ones we grew before. My wife doesn't remember the ones she saw as a kid doing it either (though we don't always remember the finer details from childhood). Is this pretty normal?
Steven
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Post by williethered on Aug 13, 2009 18:24:59 GMT -5
Steven it is normal.
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Post by stevenvance on Aug 13, 2009 18:41:22 GMT -5
Figured it was. Just hadn't seen the other ones do it. I guess they were wimpier...or better behaved...lol. Thanks.
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Post by flowerpower on Aug 14, 2009 4:44:21 GMT -5
It's very common to bury vines so they get more roots. Pumpkins like alot of water. Sugar pie is a small pumpkin 5-7 lbs. But sweet. The Jack O lantern might be a Connecticut field. That's a pretty common one. Is it round/ fat or tall/skinny?
I had some volunteer pumpkin or gourd set fruit. So far, it looks like the Sugar Pie. I can only hope. lol
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Post by stevenvance on Aug 14, 2009 8:17:44 GMT -5
Too soon to say, yet, on the 'jack-o-lantern', though it looks like it might be more oblong.
Yeah, we hadn't even been burying the vines...they were doing it all on their own. They'd even done much of it over the previous two-and-a-half days, two of which were rainy. I think if I'd been down there during the rain, I could have watched them grow, like time-lapse photography...lol.
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