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Pumpkins in a tree

16 years ago

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Apparently a bird dropped some of last year's pumpkin seeds around my Japanese Maple tree here in southern California. I saw the vine and meant to take it down, but never got around to it. Now I'll just leave it and hope they don't get too big and break a branch.

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Comments (4)

Macmex
16 years ago
I'd look into doing some kind of support, perhaps a sling. When they mature and start drying down it just might happen that they stem break and they come down unexpectedly. My dad once had a 40 pounder up in an apple tree!

George
Tahlequah, OK
sowngrow (8a)
16 years ago
How cute!!
I have gourds growing in a tree!
Robin
tomakers
16 years ago
I have my gourds in CRW cages, but they always end up growing up into the trees along our property line. The gourds don't break off, I don't know whether pumpkins would.
weirdtrev
16 years ago
I stumbled across this video today and I remembered this discussion. This video is of a maxima type pumpkin hanging off a phone line.

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/pumpkin-grows-on-pole/1314647893

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