@@questchain1115 Yeah! Some of them sunflowers I have planted could get 10 foot easy. I'll keep posting updates! If you watch some of my growing videos from last year I grew some around 14-15 feet tall. :)
The pumpkin vines splitting and “healing” isn’t the main source of them continuing to produce. The healing takes affect but doesn’t really do much for pushing nutrients and water through that area the same it would’ve before. The new roots further along the plant is what is helping it along, more so than that “healed” spot
@@JingaBBB That vines on weed guard so there's no roots after the splits all the growth is still coming through the split area. I'll try to set a fruit on that vine and I won't let it root so we can watch it as an experiment, but over the past 20 years of growing these I've had splits like this before and it doesn't slow the growth at all, it just makes a risky spot for rot to start.
@@canheaton can you confirm that it hasn’t rooted through anywhere? Cause you know pumpkins roots are thick and strong and can penetrate fabric layers pretty easily, same with plastic layers, just curious if that’s the case cause I can’t see it jumbo juicing this one out through a split stem, way harder to pull the nutrients and water it requires to get that big
@@JingaBBB hello! I went and looked at it today and realized I buried part of it yesterday with dirt on top of the weed guard, but the roots do not pass through the weed guard. It's too thick. I wish they did. It's just a side vine on the plant. It's not the main vine. The split vine is very healthy and doesn't wilt in the heat meaning it has normal flow. The reason it's not negatively affected is because the water and nutrients don't flow through the middle tube of the vine like a straw. They flow through lots of little veins around the middle tube, and all them tubes are still intact when it splits the long way. The growth isn't affected at all. I've grown on split vines before. I'm sure there has been 2000lbers grown on vines split like this. Have you been growing these giants and had a different experience when you had splits?
@@canheaton no to the last question, and I’m aware of the small fibers in the tube, as the center is usually hollow or near hollow. I was just speaking based of experience of how heavily the big boys need to be fertilized and watered, assuming that if there was less naturally ability to pump the requirements to the fruit, it simply wouldn’t achieve the goal size. I know with all conditions correct they grow around 8-15lbs per day after 3 weeks established as the only fruit on the plant, even greater amounts in the weeks following that. so I was assuming if you took away lets say for example half of the usual area it can pump water/nutrients through, it would achieve half of that growth rate per day, or less. Side note, given what I’ve said, do you think 1 fruit on this vine would be able to achieve 2000lbs? I feel as if it’s likely to produce something smaller, 300-600lbs.
@@JingaBBB The thing to take note of is the vine is is all still there, it's just folded open, none of them vines are missing. The vine is just a different shape. Get what I mean? I'm not trying for 2000lbs in this patch. I'm just letting plants grow mostly wild to produce medium giants to sell. I've grown and observed these plants for 20+ years so I'm just sharing my experiences. There are world class growers that will tell you the same thing about these splits. Lots of info on Bigpumpkins.com on the forums and diaries. 👍
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Nice to see Tomato Whisperer is also a Pumpkin surgeon.
@@tomsawyer2 Haha! That was your funniest comment to date! 😂
Can you do a giant sunflower. Like 10 ft. tall? That would be amazing.
@@questchain1115 Yeah! Some of them sunflowers I have planted could get 10 foot easy. I'll keep posting updates! If you watch some of my growing videos from last year I grew some around 14-15 feet tall. :)
The pumpkin vines splitting and “healing” isn’t the main source of them continuing to produce. The healing takes affect but doesn’t really do much for pushing nutrients and water through that area the same it would’ve before. The new roots further along the plant is what is helping it along, more so than that “healed” spot
@@JingaBBB That vines on weed guard so there's no roots after the splits all the growth is still coming through the split area. I'll try to set a fruit on that vine and I won't let it root so we can watch it as an experiment, but over the past 20 years of growing these I've had splits like this before and it doesn't slow the growth at all, it just makes a risky spot for rot to start.
@@canheaton can you confirm that it hasn’t rooted through anywhere? Cause you know pumpkins roots are thick and strong and can penetrate fabric layers pretty easily, same with plastic layers, just curious if that’s the case cause I can’t see it jumbo juicing this one out through a split stem, way harder to pull the nutrients and water it requires to get that big
@@JingaBBB hello! I went and looked at it today and realized I buried part of it yesterday with dirt on top of the weed guard, but the roots do not pass through the weed guard. It's too thick. I wish they did. It's just a side vine on the plant. It's not the main vine. The split vine is very healthy and doesn't wilt in the heat meaning it has normal flow. The reason it's not negatively affected is because the water and nutrients don't flow through the middle tube of the vine like a straw. They flow through lots of little veins around the middle tube, and all them tubes are still intact when it splits the long way. The growth isn't affected at all. I've grown on split vines before. I'm sure there has been 2000lbers grown on vines split like this.
Have you been growing these giants and had a different experience when you had splits?
@@canheaton no to the last question, and I’m aware of the small fibers in the tube, as the center is usually hollow or near hollow. I was just speaking based of experience of how heavily the big boys need to be fertilized and watered, assuming that if there was less naturally ability to pump the requirements to the fruit, it simply wouldn’t achieve the goal size. I know with all conditions correct they grow around 8-15lbs per day after 3 weeks established as the only fruit on the plant, even greater amounts in the weeks following that. so I was assuming if you took away lets say for example half of the usual area it can pump water/nutrients through, it would achieve half of that growth rate per day, or less.
Side note, given what I’ve said, do you think 1 fruit on this vine would be able to achieve 2000lbs? I feel as if it’s likely to produce something smaller, 300-600lbs.
@@JingaBBB The thing to take note of is the vine is is all still there, it's just folded open, none of them vines are missing. The vine is just a different shape. Get what I mean?
I'm not trying for 2000lbs in this patch. I'm just letting plants grow mostly wild to produce medium giants to sell.
I've grown and observed these plants for 20+ years so I'm just sharing my experiences. There are world class growers that will tell you the same thing about these splits. Lots of info on Bigpumpkins.com on the forums and diaries. 👍