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British Columbia, Canada

If you were to scrape off a thin layer of skin on the bottom of the vine and then applied root growth stimulant to it would you be able to grow roots along the entire vine?

9/7/2014 1:36:41 PM

Lloydminster/AB

Any time you play around with plant hormones you may get unexpected results. Sure you may have roots everywhere but the hormone balance of the plant may shift for awhile to make it happen. That's not usually good. look up plant hormones, auxins,cytokinins,gibberellin.

9/7/2014 8:09:35 PM

British Columbia, Canada

Thanks, I'll look it up.

9/7/2014 9:29:14 PM

Minnesota

Try it out next year on a experiment plant, I had the same idea a few years ago.

9/7/2014 10:14:01 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

My vines all grow roots at the bottom of every leaf axis anyways and so should yours, some granular mycor is a benefit but with the right vine burying and covering, you should get more than adequate rooting along all your vines.

9/7/2014 10:21:34 PM

Austin MN

I expermited with cytokinins at school on early AG growth!

9/8/2014 12:08:19 AM

BC, Canada

I will often use rooting hormone mixed in water when planting out, not just pumpkins. IBA is the most common rooting hormone, cheap, tried and true and causes very little problems. It is usually available in varying strengths. The silly thing is the various strengths are the same cost per bottle. Buy the strongest and just dilute. The other great rooting mix is "willow water". There will be a load of stuff about it from a net search. Easy to make and very effective. So, yes, adding a root stimulating agent will help most plants make more roots. The limitation I would see with pumpkins is that the AGs are so aggressive growing that the patch area is most likely going to be entirely full of roots anyway. Probably no grat advantage. And in all plants there is a relationship/balance between leaf area and root. But, the IBA may help initiate quicker root growth

9/8/2014 11:58:44 AM

Waterville, Ohio

It works, I started using IB3A on my plants after I lost my most promising pumpkin in the beginning of August. Keep the areas covered with soil after application and you will have new roots formed in most areas applied.
Next year I will apply it earlier to try and establish them during peak growth.

9/8/2014 9:47:17 PM

Anamosa, IA BPIowegian@aol.com

I tried a similar experiment on 2 of my long gourd plants secondary vines. I will know more after a frost when I can dig them up and see how they rooted.

9/8/2014 10:32:41 PM

Ontario, Canada.

In theory yes this works to develop Adventitious roots. The problem arises with all these growing points is that they become competing sinks. Timing is everything. My thought is this would work best leading up to and just before pollination and after the half life of the fruit around day 45 or so.

9/13/2014 8:41:34 PM