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If timing is everything, then whats the best technique and when's the best time to bury your vines to encourage the best possible rooting? Its clear that many pumpkins with the 1450W and 1161R genetics are throwing out MULTIPLE roots at each node. I saw it with my own eyes in my patch this year. But what I also saw was that it didn't happen at every sigle node.

If the plant is able to do it at some nodes, I would say that the plant is probably able to do it at ALL nodes, but needs the right conditions to do it. So for me, it was likely a personal problem that I wasn't giving the plant exactly what it needed or I wasn't timing things exactly correctly.

maybe the details are so subtle that you think this post is crazy, but I think there's A LOT more to it than just throwing a little myco in the trench and mounding dirt over the vines... and I don't think its really a nutrient issue, as most of us are certainly not short of the macronutrients needed to promote rooting. I think perhaps its a timing issue with variables including when you are terminating vines, pollinating pumpkins, etc...

At the end of the day, a healthy plant that has 3 or 4 big roots at every node is going to grow an awfully big pumpkin.

12/6/2010 10:39:26 PM

Rhode Island

pete

everything works hand in hand. soil balance, weather, vine burying, weather, moisture levels, weather, strength of seed used/luck of the draw, timing of growth and disease sprays when the plant needs them, weather.
i mentioned weather a lot because with bad weather? comes lots of issues - not just a growth slow down.
pap

12/7/2010 8:07:53 AM

Cameron,ontario Team Lunatic

Bury your vines down deep enough to promote the extra root mass. Roots will grow out from the top of the vine & even on each side of the leaf node if everything is good. We use myco & humic acid at each node. Just a pinch of myco directly on the root & a table spoon of Humic acid mixed into the dirt below is all we use.
Hope this helps.

Jane & Phil

12/7/2010 10:07:03 AM

PacificNW

You can also get a bucket of humic acid/myco mixed together and pour that on the node.

12/8/2010 12:31:06 AM

Little-TON - Colorado

Heck Pete,

I was doZing mine with Yum Yum MiX aZ well....its got everything under the weather....did this on that heavy HUNT.....I had some side vines that were over 20 feet long.....I kinda fell once again I was growing salad....when will I learn? Thing was...as it rooted down more....the bigger and bigger the side vines became....some as big as the main vine....damn colorado short seaZon....

12/8/2010 5:57:13 AM