Running of the Vines

These are my four plants.  Fortunately it looks like I have at least have one descent plant in each hoop house.  Vines are down on the ground for all the plants now.  I need to get the root system going.   Being in the pots as long as they were the root systems are probably half the size they would have been if they had been in the ground.   I'm not too worried about it at this point.  Two years ago we had the worst month of weather in May, ever in Colorado. Literally the plants saw about 5 hours of sun the entire month and it was very cool.  The plants were all lime green by the end of the month.  Lots of big pumpkins at the end of the season, because June had great weather and the rest of the year was normal.  In May, you need the plants to grow a big root system.  In June you need the plants to vine out and grow a lot of salad, so the plant is big enough to power the fruit in July.

747 Johnson

747 Johnson

1685 Scherber

1685 Scherber