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Indiana

What are you folks doing for cracking just away from the stem on the pumpkin its self? It's about inch and a half long maybe an 8th of a inch wide if that. What if anything should I put on this crack?

7/27/2019 9:05:23 PM

Anamosa, IA BPIowegian@aol.com

I use sulfur or full strength Daconil. If the split gets too bad, you might want to split the stem also to relieve stress.

7/28/2019 8:41:53 AM

Indiana

I have on hand hi-yield wettable sulfur. How are you applying it to the cracks? Thanks

7/28/2019 9:19:37 AM

Bloomington, IN USA

I have the same Hi-yield wettable Sulfur.
It is a fine powder.
I put into a small squeezable ketchup bottle & blow it into cracks, which works well.

7/28/2019 5:21:41 PM

Ontario, Canada

We fill a turkey baster 1/2 full with sulfur powder & blow it around the stem & in the cracks/splits.

7/28/2019 8:14:27 PM

Eastern Pennsylvania

You also need to determine why the stem is cracking and stop it otherwise healing the injury won’t do much good once it really gets broken. Make sure the pumpkin isn’t pinned to the ground by any nearby tap roots and make sure there is plenty of slack on the vine on both side of the pumpkin.

7/28/2019 8:53:27 PM

Walkerton Ont

yes exactly,morjority of the time why people having problems with crack stems etc. i pull those tap roots all out early,even first side vine by pumpkin close to main vine, generaly a few nodes. gotta position that pumpkin make sure shes right.

7/29/2019 12:47:41 AM