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| ameliad80 |
Posted - Aug 15 2008 : 07:04:27 AM
I was wondering if you have to pull off the suckers on watermelon like you do on tomatoes. Any help would be great. Thank You. |
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| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Aug 16 2008 : 2:49:43 PM
The only time I cut watermelon or any vine, for that matter, is now, at the end of the season. And then I'm only cutting the new growth down to the next fruit on the vine. That way, the plant concentrates on the fruit already on the vines and not on the next blooms, too. But then I'm in a short-season area and this practice is necessary to get ripened fruit out of a plant that is really a long-season plant. I don't get very many fruits, but I get enough.
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| Contrary Wife |
Posted - Aug 16 2008 : 12:29:35 PM
Ameila, I've never heard of pulling off suckers on watermelon plants. Just let'em grow.
Teresa Sue
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| Keeper of the Past |
Posted - Aug 16 2008 : 12:16:53 PM
Ameila, my husband grows melons and he never pulls them off...don't quote me but I think he said that the vines put down to absorb more water and nutrients from the soil. He has always had pick up loads of big watermelons. One year he filled the concrete floor of his wood shop which is really big to keep them until he could get rid of them. This year his patch is very poor due to the rains we have been getting.
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