How to Prune Vines on a Giant Pumpkin
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When learning how to grow a giant pumpkin, vine maintenance is very important to keep in mind. Your main vine and secondaries are the primary source of nutrients and energy, but any more than that can start causing issues. Many growers remove all tertiary vines (side vines off of secondary vines), tendrils, and even male and female flowers after they are confident they have successfully pollinated their pumpkin for the year. Other growers however, like to leave some of these things on. Do your research, ask your local growers what they do, and find out what works for you. Happy growing!
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This helps me so much! Thank you. Every year I plant seeds from 300 lb pumpkin, every year I get tiny pumpkins.
The young leaves, stem, tendrils, even the flowers can be eaten. I grow pumpkin plants not for the fruit but for the young shoots and flowers. The small hairs come off the stem quite easily if you know how. When cooked right, they're yummy veggies, juicy, sweet, chewy and crunchy.
@robrod7120
2 жыл бұрын
They’re delicious! I cook them as if they were a mix between spinach and brussels sprouts. Very delicious
@glazedconfused8764
2 жыл бұрын
Wow really?? I’ll try thank you for the tip
I have a pumpkin with only 5 leaves i transplanted, very small. It has what looks like a bunch of early flowers on it, how can I tell those from secondary vines? Should I pick them until it grows more as its tiny now?
Yesss I've been looking for this! Thank you for your work! 🤌✨️
Thankyou This helped me a lot
I love that video
Why is my stem sweating on my punkin hopefully you help
I have the exact yellowing on the leaves of my plant , and as it’s grown out , it has got less and less on each leaf . Until it’s goes completely , any ideas, thanks for posting many thanks,
@jayandthegiantpumpkin5032
5 жыл бұрын
Yellowing on the leaves can be a lot of things but is usually an imbalance of some sort. I believe the leaves here on Dave's plant could have been due to excessive nitrogen as we were pumping it pretty full of it early on. Lack of absorption due to a couple cold nights early one could have also been an issue. We leveled it out and also used a little manganese for an additional issue we had and within a week or two it corrected itself. A great resource for any issues with your leaves is from Mad Scientist Matt DeBacco. Check out his old presentation here: www.bigpumpkins.com/Attachments/Leaf_Problems_Summer_2011.pdf
@wjames5645
5 жыл бұрын
We had a couple of cold cloudy weeks , and I think I over did it 😃🙈🙈🙈 like you said it’s balanced itself out now, thanks
@jayandthegiantpumpkin5032
5 жыл бұрын
@@wjames5645 Glad they are looking better! Grow 'em big.
Great video but i cringed every time you said true-tiary. TERtiary :-)
@dukeofpkr
2 жыл бұрын
For a moment I thought maybe I have been pronouncing the word incorrect all my Life 😂 thank god is tertiary and not truetiary 😂