How to connect two or more pumpkin/squash plants by grafting

Video tutorial how to connect 2 or more pumpkin/squash plants by grafting (works and with other species)

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• atlantic
• giant
• pumpkin
• squash
• growing
• plant
• grafting
• gardening

[StatenIslandSlim]

How come you dont talk?

[BgGradina]

@StatenIslandSlim

I'm Bulgarian and my spoken English is awful :), so I thought subs only will be much better.

Last year I didn't grew AG's. This year I'm growing only one, because I need it for my attempt to breed new giant variety which tolerates better high temps - it's AG X moschata cross. So there will be no new (better) video. But as I see this technique already got popular, so there is no need for new video. Still I'm sure soon or latter someone else will make English sound-screen video.

[QUABLEDISTOCFICKLEPO]

That's a great idea. I'm also interested in different ways of growing large pumpkins, although I did get sidetracked by an excursion into hydroponics. I thought it would be great if I could grow a large pumpkin vine out of a test tube. That's right, instead of the roots going into the ground, they would go into a constantly replenished test tube. Well, that idea turned out to be idiotic, but now that I think of it again , perhaps it would be feasible if "test tube" were replaced by "pipe".

[BgGradina]

@QUABLEDISTOCFICKLEPO Hydroponics is the best way IMO, but it requires serious equipment for pumpkins, because the plant and the root system are very big, thus the need for very big tank and so on... But there is and other (of compromise) way, just google for: giant pumpkins direct root feeding

[QUABLEDISTOCFICKLEPO]

But what's the point? I've been thinking of trying to graft vegetable plants together, but just to see if I could do it. I can see grafting onto a more vigorous root system, but why would you want to graft two plants together?

[BgGradina]

@QUABLEDISTOCFICKLEPO This is useful when growing fruits (in this case a pumpkin) for maximum size. When you connect your main plant with 1, 2, 3 or even more other plants, which I call supporting plants, they could feed the fruit on your main plant. That way you will be able to grow even bigger fruit. This technique could be particularly useful for competitive giant vegetable growing. There is a page with a better explanation, but I'm not allowed to post the link here.

[Yong7731]

we do like that for what?

[QUABLEDISTOCFICKLEPO]

Thanks for getting back to me, but I can't continue. I don't know what's wrong, but your comments don't stay on the screen long enough for me to read more than two or three words before they disappear. To read your entire message, I have to click on "see all" dozens of times, and that doesn't make for a good experience. Nevertheless, I have been making the effort, and I have read everything you had to say. I only wish there was a way I could read your ideas in a normal way.