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"Wild" Pumpkin Vine Question
"Elaine" wrote in
: Thank you for responding. It is in morning afternoon sun, dappled middle of the day and judging by it's growth rate seems to get getting enough light. I water it when I give my real plants a drink. It is in very rich soil but a little on the acid side probably. I know nothing about growing Pumpkins. Can you fill me in on some simple facts other than what I have listed I am doing? sounds good to me. my soil is a bit acid too & it doesn't seem to bother them. How to fertilize and when? Some fruits have set now. Are they similar to growing gourds? almost exactly the same. if you save your gourd seeds for next year, you might want to make sure your pumpkin is far away from them. they easily cross pollenate. i toss llama poop on my pumpkin hills every 2-3 weeks. they are heavy feeders. I have some birdhouse gourd vines I am growing now but other than a few tomato plants, I am not much of a veggie gardener. my birdhouse gourd seeds didn't sprout. i need to try another batch. leftover seeds sometimes don't work... As for my brother thinking it will stay green...who knows. Probably from something he read at sometime. He is a bit of a trivial nut maybe because many "volunteer" pumpkins get a very late start & so fail to ripen? i have some volunteers in my garden i want to move to the pumpkin end of the garden. thier parent was a sugar type... & i'm actually amazed my chickens left any of the seeds. one other thing that may help is to pinch out the growing tips of the vine at the end of July. that gets the plant to put more energy into ripening the fruit set already, instead of setting more. lee -- "Fascism would be better described as corporatism, since it is marriage between the state and business" - Benito Mussolini |
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