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Cuts in my pumkin vines

14 years ago

Hi All, One of my pumpkin vines is looking really horrible. It looks like someone went in and cut the vine lengthwise with a knife. Can cucumber beetles do this? Anyone have any ideas why my vine split? Should I just pull it out at this point. The only female flower that I ever got on this fell off. Thanks,

Jolene

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Christian
14 years ago
Do the leaves look healthy, is the vine still growing? If so I would just leave it. I've seen split vines recover nicely. At least on my squash plants, I've had splits from SVB damage, and those have healed over.
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