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Bristol, ME ([email protected])

There are what appear to be flower buds at nearly every leaf joint on my 2 plants. The vine is about 4 foot long and the first secondary is shooting up at about 18" long. My question is should I be pinching off some of these buds or will it not make a difference in growth if I leave them all on the vine?

6/13/2002 5:47:35 AM

Cologne / Germany

I was adviced not to cut off male flowers before you have done all your pollination. The only thing I will do is to preserve 2 or 3 males in the fridge as "emergency backups".

6/13/2002 6:41:55 AM

Ontario

you do not prune off any flowers until u are satisfied with a set pumpkin . You will need these flowers to pollinate with unless u use flowers from another plant. On the secondaries you can prune off the little vines that start to grow off of these , if you are using the christmas tree patturn

6/14/2002 2:23:41 AM