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  • how much longer will you leave your butternuts on the plant

    one of the old guys on our site who gave me some spare plants has ripped all his out

    im wondering if he knows something i dont mine are still on the plants at the minute as the plants are still green

    i know about knocking for the hollow sound and the orange colour and hard skin but how much longer will you leave yours for

  • #2
    Leave them as long as you can, right up until the frost starts to hit. the longer you can cure the skins for the longer they will keep.
    I grow 70% for us and 30% for the snails, then the neighbours eats them

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    • #3
      Never grosn them, sorry, can't give you any advice, but there are plenty of peeps on here who will be able to advise you.

      And when your back stops aching,
      And your hands begin to harden.
      You will find yourself a partner,
      In the glory of the garden.

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      • #4
        I'd just leave them on as long as nothings eating them. I take the leaves off above the pumpkins to help them ripen, I assume you need to do the same with the BNS if they are shaded.
        "A life lived in fear is a life half lived."

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        • #5
          I leave them as long as I can before first frost. The only reason I pick earlier is if the plant dies and it can't benefit from being outdoors any longer.

          Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

          Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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          • #6
            Originally posted by marchogaeth View Post
            I'd just leave them on as long as nothings eating them. I take the leaves off above the pumpkins to help them ripen, I assume you need to do the same with the BNS if they are shaded.
            yes you do have to do the same to help them ripen but i usually tuck the leaves around them underneath the fruit to raise it off the ground anyway

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            • #7
              thanks for the replies seems best to leave them as long as poss

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              • #8
                I dont have space for them but my grandad has millions (and knows what he's doing more anyway!) - his are still in but he's put upturned pots / seed trays / anything to hand underneath them to keep the fruit off the soil

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