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Cologne / Germany

As season will be finished soon, I have a question concerning cloning. Read everything about it published here on BP and from pumpkinnook. I just want to save a part of my Eisenhaur plant during winter.

- Is it a must to cut it from the main? All my vines including the main are already terminated, but I´m getting some new groth elsewhere in the patch.
- Is there a certain lenght you need to cut off the vine (or counting the nodes)?

Well, just to experiment with that. I know the opinions about cloning are different among growers. But I´d like to try it before simply cutting off the plant in October.

By the way, some of you are growing the 597 Keyzer plant (hey Case, Mark P.), I would adore to have a clone from your plants! If there´s a way to arrange it, please email me. Can arrange shipping with a friend from New Mexico.

Ingo

9/2/2002 7:48:02 PM

Western Pa.

Ingo,

Any healthy vine will do, and will eventually grow into a main. I use a 3' long planter box, filled with pro-mix.(This way you may develop roots at more than one node.)Bury the vine in the planter, it sometimes helps to stake it down. In my climate I would do this now, and cut from the plant when well rooted, and before frost. Then, all you have to do is keep it alive all winter, repotting and cutting clones, as needed. Good luck!

9/3/2002 3:25:52 AM

Cologne / Germany

Thanks Kilr, I´ll try it this way.

9/3/2002 7:54:18 AM

Cologne / Germany

Well, that´s interesting, I finally buried all the remaining vines of my plants a month ago, then cut off two of them that had been too close to the stems of the pumpkins last weekend.
One vine is 50 % dead, 50 % alive. The other one completely looks like as never been cut off. Being a first-timer that was a good lesson to learn there´s more about a pumpkin plant than looking at the stump.

9/5/2002 6:37:45 PM