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Austin MN

Hi every was currious if any one has ever taken a cutting or made a clone off of a pumpkin and keep it alive over the winter to try to grow out in the spring to produce a new fruit?

9/1/2015 12:27:30 PM

Central NY

Yes...site search snowball...Matt debacco

9/1/2015 1:35:02 PM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

Yep we did this with an 801.t stelts back in like 2002.

9/1/2015 1:36:47 PM

Austin MN

Porkchop I think snow ball was a seed out of the 2009 crossed with a cutting the pumpkin was not grown off the cutting I think?

9/1/2015 1:40:20 PM

Central Minnesota

Very hard to grow anything of any size. If you are growing for genetics or seeds, it will work but you aren't going to get size.

9/1/2015 1:40:23 PM

Central NY

I meant he grew a cutting over the winter.. I forget what he named it ...

9/1/2015 2:18:16 PM

Colorado

Mark Sawtelle and Barry todd kept a cutting off my 1009.2 producing plant back in 2000. Neither had a sunroom just south facing windows.Have to treat cuttings for white flies and PM. Use the cuttings as pollinators and genetics plants-as scott eluded to

9/1/2015 2:56:14 PM

Connecticut

Here are some links to pictures of pumpkins that have come off the clones I have produced in the past. I can say that from my experience it is much harder to grow clones in a greenhouse during the winter then it is in the field. One advantage is there are no open pollinations, but some how the flowers know to open during a snowstorm;-)
http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=195278

The 220.3 DeBacco was a pumpkin grown off a seed from the 2009 Wallace and pollinated with pollen from the same 1725 Harp that grew the 2009 Wallace. So, I guess that would be a half-self cross. Proper nomenclature... 220.3 DeBacco ’13 (F: 2009 Wallace ‘12 x M: 1725 Harp ’09 [2009 Wallace] clone).

Take a look at my 2013 and 2014 diaries for some information about the cloning I have done:
http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryView.asp?season=2013&grower=25411&action=L
http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryView.asp?season=2014&grower=25411&action=L

Here are some offsprings growers have produced from some of my clones...

850 G. Adams ’11
http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=173182

832 A. Berard ’11 (only pumpkin from a clone to go under chart)
http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=173183

767 J. Post ’11
http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=173184

650.5 N. Petti ’11 (Yes, clones can produce Howard Dill Award winning pumpkins!)
http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=173185

616 C. Horn ’11
http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryView.asp?season=2011&grower=25411&action=L

9/1/2015 9:13:36 PM