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New Brunswick

I was out in my pumpkin patch yesterday, and decided that there were too many plants in such a small area. I checked out one plant and found it was barren...so I started pulling it and all its vines out. Well.....one of the vines caught around the main stem of another plant and broke it off. I followed the severed vine...and oh..no..it was attached to one of my largest pumpkins. I started piling soil and horse poop on top and watering. The vine did have quite a few long root things down in the soil, near the pumpkin, and this is where I piled the dirt. Suppose it will live? Has anyone ever made a clone when the plant and pumpkin was so big? Of all the luck...*sigh*

8/29/2002 11:13:53 AM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

I hate to break it to you, But its not a clone. Its still the original plant, minus the stump. A clone is when you take one of something, and make more. It should survive, alot of people loose the stumps due to rot.

8/29/2002 12:49:37 PM

New Brunswick

Ok now I am confused....I thought that if you buried a vine still attached to the main plant, left it alone except make sure you water it, then in 7 to 10 days, you could sever it from the main plant and you would have a clone. It would have its own root system. (At least that is what I read about cloning pumpkins.) That is what I did inadvertly. It is still alive. I have my fingers crossed.

8/29/2002 4:53:02 PM

Key West, FL

i wouldnt like call it a clone till you moved it somewhere else

8/29/2002 6:20:44 PM

New Brunswick

K...I won't call it a clone then.....as I have no attention of shaking the poor thing up further by moving it....LOL (I have done enough damage already.)

8/29/2002 9:24:24 PM