Reade Pringle Posted February 8, 2025 Report Posted February 8, 2025 I am growing pumpkins in high-fertility soil and wonder if breaking the withered vines that the pumpkin tends to produce is more or less efficient than letting them be. Thanks.
Solution Thorfinn Posted February 8, 2025 Solution Report Posted February 8, 2025 (edited) Yeah, HFS is a bad idea. Or at least was. I have not grown any in 1.20 yet. The vines are time based, so the longer the plant takes to grow, the more chance it has to grow vines. Use Low. Maybe even Barren, though I've never bothered to try it. [EDIT] You do want the water closer, though. Diagonally adjacent is ideal. Edited February 8, 2025 by Thorfinn
ijkdenem Posted April 9 Report Posted April 9 as far as i know its safe to break the withered vines cuz they don't function anymore. i don't think it matters when as long as it says withered it is fine to break them. but i am not 100% sure since i am doing pumpkin stuff too and still figuring it out as well and MY months are at 30 DAYS so i got to wait a LONG time for my stuff to even grow. so maybe test it on 1 vine to be safe. if it continues to grow ok then you are fine.
williams_482 Posted April 9 Report Posted April 9 Breaking withered vines will not harm the plan, provided there isn't a live vine at the end of the withered vine. If breaking these vines actually helps is unclear: it seems like it would open up more spaces for possible pumpkin spawns, but I've been unable to actually test this. It's also unclear to me if using better soil is still a bad idea. I tested this in a not very systematic manner on 1.21 and the pumpkins planted on low fert soil seemed to do worse than the ones on fertilized med fert soil, but I am not confident that my results are representative.
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