How to pinch a pumpkin and growing technology after

What is pinching for?

An amazing vegetable is a pumpkin, its fruit can be large and small, there can be one on a plant, or you can grow a whole bunch of them. All this the gardener can do at will, forming a plant and making a pinching.

Growing a pumpkin is not difficult at all. If the plant has enough soil nutritional value (which was taken care of in advance, since autumn), then you don't even need to feed it, just water it and watch how the lashes and large green leaves grow. The richer the soil, the more lashes develop in one plant, flowers appear on each, many fruits can be set. Leaves and branches require a lot of nutrition, the roots work on them, even if the shoots are sterile, thereby depriving the fruit. If you leave everything as it grows, the fruits may not ripen, there may be too many of them, and the root (even as powerful as that of a pumpkin) will not cope with their food. That is why proper cultivation of pumpkin involves pinching and pinching.

The owner, lowering the seed into the ground, should already know what he wants to receive. Based on this, he is engaged in the formation of a bush. Whether he grows a giant pumpkin or wants to get a few small, so-called, portioned ones, he does it by doing the right pinching.There are usually more female flowers on the lateral lashes than on the main one. If they want to get more fruit, pinch the main lash, prevent it from growing, and instead stimulate the growth of the side ones. In any case, the formation of a plant affects the number of fruits, and therefore, their quality and ripening rate.

How is it done

The pumpkin is grown bushy and long-leaved. The correct formation of a plant includes the concepts of pinching and pinching. Grazing is the removal of excess axillary shoots. It is better to remove them young, no longer than 7 cm. In a bush pumpkin, the first fruit is formed on the main shoot, it can be pinned so that it does not grow further, but focuses on growing this fruit. All the time while the bush is growing, it must be thinned out, removing excess shoots, the bush should not be very thick. On the bush, summer residents usually control the number of fruits.

The peculiarity of long-growing varieties is their rapid growth. The more nutritious the soil, the more lashes grow. If the owner wants a lot of fruits, but their size does not interest him, then he lays out the lashes so that they do not interfere with each other, do not block the sun, removes excess leaves. The scourges are sprinkled with moist soil, then they give additional roots, which makes them more stable and provides additional nutrition. This alone is the formation of a plant.

If the summer resident is not sure that his pumpkins will ripen before the cold weather, if he wants to influence the number of fruits, in both cases he is forced to pinch. Its purpose is to stop the growth of the whip. On the main lash, 3-4 fruits are allowed to tie, after the last 5 leaves are counted and the growth bud is pinched off. Do the same with side shoots.The number of side lashes is limited earlier, if there is such a desire: when a couple of the strongest ones can be distinguished from several shoots after the main one, they are left, and the rest are removed. This allows the plant (or forces it) to direct all its forces towards ripening the fruit. Further care, also directed towards one goal, helps to achieve the desired result.

Pinching will also help if the summer resident wants to grow many fruits on one plant. In this case, the growth of the main lash stops even earlier - after 1-2 ovaries, this stimulates the formation of lateral ones, which usually have more female flowers, which means that with certain care, more fruits will be obtained.

Grow and pinch video

Does the pumpkin need it

The pumpkin came to us from tropical latitudes, it loves warmth, sunlight and moisture. At the same time, it can suffer from abundant watering or from the close occurrence of groundwater, to which its long root can reach. She loves light loose soils, but grows well in black soil. Such a controversial pumpkin is wonderfully grown by summer residents everywhere: from the most southern to the most northern regions.

It is safe to say that without any pinching on a plant that has already sprouted, there will be fruits (if the flowers are normally pollinated). Perhaps there will be many of them, and not all of them will ripen. But the most delicious pumpkin is ripe, and only the fruit that has ripened in the garden can be stored until the next harvest. A fodder gourd is unlikely to be cultivated as carefully as the one grown for their table. Of course, a vegetable that is properly dealt with throughout the entire cultivation will differ from one that grew without feeding on a long lash without pinching, but how much this is necessary and important, every gardener decides for himself.

Growing technologies

The more fertilizer is applied to the soil, the more intensively new pumpkin shoots grow. In this case, they pinch it, thin out, remove excess leaves. Top dressing stops when the fruits have reached their maximum (or just the desired size), some gardeners, knowing the composition of the soil of their site, in August are limited only to potash fertilizers, and then even stop watering.

Pinching is not a one-off procedure; it is done as needed throughout the summer. The first pinching and pinching is carried out even before flowering, and then they look at the flowers, observe the possibility of pollination. If male flowers bloom after female flowers, if insects are absent during flowering, artificial pollination has to be done.

There are different technologies for growing pumpkin, they are all correct. There are stories of summer residents who fertilized the plot in the fall, and then sowed pumpkin seeds in the spring. The next time they came to her at the end of September for the harvest. If the soil is nutritious enough, and the summer resident has no particular complaints, then mid-season fruits may well ripen without much trouble in the middle lane.

Pinching Result Video

What happens if you pinch a pumpkin at the time of its cultivation? What will be the end effect and is it worth it? You will learn all this from the short video below.