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Nova Scotia

my double vine plant split into to main double vines. i kept the double one and removed the triple vine. but is there anyway to turn a double into a single? besides letting side vine take over

10/29/2003 1:45:44 PM

Utah

typically double vines - turn into triple- then quadruple vines- and so on.
I had a double that I tried surgery on. i cut a little more than 1/2 the tip off. a single vine grew out of it but it grew in a fairly tight spiral. the scar side didn't grow as much. Then it striagtened out some. then after another foot it went double again.
it sucks but if you have a normal secondary i'd go with it.

10/29/2003 4:29:17 PM

i've had nomal secondaries turn into double, then switch back to normal after a few nodes. so it's possible it could fix itself, but i wouldn't count on it.

10/29/2003 4:38:30 PM

Indiana

Brigitte is right, double vines often turn flat, but they can also stay double, or split into 2 vines. There have been some big pumpkins grown on double vines. If it were me, I would just hack the vine off, and go with the next closest secondary as the main vine. Stelts got a 1053.5 this way.

Tom Beachy

10/29/2003 5:56:00 PM

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We had a vine end turn into a knob like affair this year (845 Nesbit). It stalled for 3 weeks. When it began to grow from 2 secondaries, I waited a week to decide which would be the new main. My selection then turned flat. Then back to round at the next node. That plant never really did another thing. When I finally cut it off, the resulting vascular system (after the flat) was a wreck. No order & the total capacity of the remaining vascular system must have been reduced by 40% I'd guess.

Steve

10/29/2003 7:08:44 PM

Nova Scotia

good info tremor, thanks

10/30/2003 8:30:48 AM

New York

I had a problem with a double vine this past season on a 723 plant. I didn't like the looks of the side vines so I decided to do a little surgery on the main vine tip. Very carefully, using a razor blade, one side of the double vine was cut. After some time the "new" single main vine developed well with little scaring. The pumpkin past the cut weighed 1029 pounds. Usually, at the growing tip of the vine, you can actually see where the vines split naturally, but then fuse together. You need to exercise caution when cutting because the tips are about the size of a pencil end.

10/31/2003 5:18:20 AM