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Nottingham, UK

Is it normal to have two females sprouting from the same place?

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=162264

7/7/2011 6:22:59 AM

Germany

Things happen...once again I feel addressed to post a reply ;-) . Last year and this year I also encountered "twins", but in all cases these double features originated from a flat vine (which also produced more than one leaf per node). Also, I have had female and male emerging from the same node (on a healthy vine, not a flat one), and therefore your female twins on one node (on a healthy vine, it looks healthy on the picture) shouldn´t be impossible. Perhaps this occurs as frequently as unidentical human twins happen to grow up (need to compare them with the unidentical twins, as they are already set up prior to "pollination"). If you want to keep one (of course, it wouldn´t make sense to grow the two of them in this one position), just pollinate both of them and wait for the first couple of days before culling the smaller one. It might happen that only one pollination is successful.

7/7/2011 7:25:52 AM

Germany

BTW, have a look at the latest diary entries by "Kürbisfreak". Even siamese twins aren´t impossible.

7/7/2011 7:38:46 AM