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Cottonwood Heights

Have a club root. Growing slower than others. Anyone try growing this or maybe I should cut my ties early?

4/18/2020 5:36:04 PM

Syracuse, NY

suppose it depends on the initial intent for the seed - i have one that was an experiment to begin with and actually wanted to tell growers to also stick with it - i believe the main root radicle doesn't activate, so the other root material simply bypasses it and there's just no 'tap root' to begin with;
i'll try later to show that in my diary for 2020;

since The Club is stunted early-on, yes, it's slower-growing, but if it's perhaps a 2005 Haist or 2145, etc., STILL give it a go, but, probably only after the first few secondaries get their roots down, it'll be a slight drawback; i fully intend to plant 'for real' my clubby-but-sweet 607.5 '09 (1142 Van Kooten X 904 Stelts) because i've seen what it might do, given the chance.
others will chime in, and there's always the Search Window, which i love to recommend, AND i get to hear others' questions for my OWN knowledge---here's a link, nice and easy:

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/MsgBoard/ViewThread.asp?b=3&p=437635

simply using club root as the topic.
seems i'm agreed-with, lol---i probably read it last year, too, lol---eg

4/18/2020 7:03:46 PM

Cottonwood Heights

Thank you for the thoughtful response. Keeping an eye on it.

4/18/2020 10:11:28 PM

Grittyville, WA

Is it caused by excessive water and cold temps? I had one once that may have had it. It recovered from it. But it got demoted to a worse patch of ground.

4/19/2020 1:40:46 AM

Eddyz@efirehose.net

If memory serves me right Ron Wallace broke the world record on a club root They come out of club roots just fine

4/19/2020 3:02:08 PM

New York

How do you tell if it’s a club root if it’s in soil?

4/19/2020 7:36:59 PM

Western NY

You might not know. However, usually they won't be able to "push up" as far as a normal one.

4/19/2020 7:43:47 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

I posted a photo in my diary to further this discussion.

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=313190

7 for 7 of the same seed are what I consider to be a club root, I believe it to be 100% genetic and will do a follow up experiment with some more of the same seeds and a bunch from another pumpkin and see what the results are. This seed has done this before, and grew big beautiful pumpkins anyways.

4/20/2020 1:35:45 PM

Cottonwood Heights

Saw that. Amazing. Thanks for sharing. From what I have gathered it can be done! Others have doubt. Spending as much time on something, hard to go on a maybe.

4/20/2020 11:02:34 PM

Hadley Ny

I had a seed that didn't come up right away last year and I pulled it. It had a club root so I replanted and started another of the same seed. I grew the plants next to each other and they both grew the same. Both throwing 2 nice orange kins.

4/21/2020 5:33:31 AM