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Colorado

can you use these to fill in spaces with old leaves, or is it best to chop them all off and keep the energy going to the pumpkin?

8/12/2010 11:44:12 AM

Western PA

Look down 5 posts I just put a answer up that is similar to your question. The post was "fruit or salad".

8/12/2010 12:21:02 PM

Maine

I am no expert on growing these things but I have been letting these so called "sucker vines fill in areas of where I have lost old leaves. I do not let them grow out much. Only enough to let two or three leaves fill out and dead head the end. To me it is still feeding the roots below where the old leaf died and can only add more life to the pumpkin. Without doing this I think my plant would be just about all dead in 75 to 80 days.

8/12/2010 12:22:52 PM

Colorado

Pete run your plant over with a tractor to stress it good.Keep any sucker vines that didnt get plucked by the wheels

8/12/2010 12:29:19 PM

Upa Creek, MO

I have been backfilling with them for the past month since I got Powdery Mildew. It's like a convayer belt over here, but the newest pumpkin is growing fast.

8/12/2010 1:29:12 PM

Western PA

lol cojoe !!!

8/12/2010 3:17:10 PM

Little-TON - Colorado

Pete...Go ahead and let them grow......SUCKER.....

8/12/2010 5:05:35 PM

Littleton, Colo

...Peter.....I'm just The Waterboy....can't help.....

8/12/2010 11:40:58 PM