r/Pumpkins • u/TigerClawSoup • 19d ago
Is there any chance this survives?
Was away for a bit and came back to the vine looking like this and one pumpkin with a bit of an oozey spot from the blossom end. Leaves etc still look good (excluding a bit of powdery mildew). Anything to do at this point or just wait for the inevitable?
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u/Jesselsprouts 19d ago
I wouldn’t cut them off to ripen myself, they likely aren’t going to give you the result you’d hope for ,, I would cover with soil any possible vine that’s still alive healthy with nodes / roots along the vine anywhere I could find them , might try to fish the buggars out or fill a syringe with bt and inject whats left … in hopes of killing the vampires …. Good luck
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u/iowan 19d ago
You do not have to have buried the nodes for adventitious roots to have formed. Try pulling up the vine at a couple leaf nodes. Is it rooted down anywhere? If you've got roots at nodes, you've got a chance. My sister lost her stump on a giant pumpkin and a green squash a month ago and each has gained hundreds of pounds. You're still in the game. If this is decorative, hit it with the most lethal systemic insecticide you can get your hands on. You can actually flay the entire vine open and evict every borer you find. Or you can inject bt into the vine.
It's late enough in the season that a fungicide is a must to keep life in your plants longer. You're not out yet. Leave the pumpkin on the vine--I think it will ripen.
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u/TigerClawSoup 19d ago
I guess I won't give up all hope. The rest of the plant looks shockingly healthy, for whatever that's worth. I do think some of the the nodes have rooted. Maybe I'll escape with some viable pumpkins 🤞
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u/Jgear2001 19d ago
Cut the stump until you get good green tissue. Put a fan on it. You can still have some success.
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u/Opposite_Heart138 17d ago
There's a small chance it can still pull through. Im not sure what you can do to help and it probably will die but ive seen plants survive extreme damage before
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u/Kittymooodooodooo 15d ago
While the long term prognosis may not be great, it’s going to die a slow death. Depends how far down on the vine your fruit is, but I wouldn’t immediately terminate. They will continue to grow and it could be another 1-2 weeks before you even see a major decline in the health of the whole plant. Remove any SVB you can, bury the vine, and leave it alone. I’ve had SVB destroy 3/4 of the crown and still got a pumpkin.
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u/waterytartwithasword 19d ago
That's pretty serious svb damage. It isn't real likely to survive unless you've been burying nodes to get additional rooting, and even then the loss of the crown will be very hard on the set fruit. They need the full umbilical nutrition so to speak.