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East Sussex, UK

Do you pay any attention to what direction you grow your main vine (northern hemisphere)? Have you experienced that sometimes a vine just wants to grow north for instance? Or that the secondaries just seem determined to go towards the rising sun?

5/22/2026 4:04:17 AM

Western NY

Of the pumpkins I've had over 2k, the main vines headed E, E, S, N, W, W, E. I rotate stuff around and haven't noticed much of a preference. Sometimes you get a plant that's difficult to lay down, but I haven't had any wanting to turn east on their own.

5/22/2026 8:11:10 AM

East Sussex, UK

Thanks Andy.

5/22/2026 11:43:56 AM

Upa Creek, MO

Agree with Wolf. I don't grow size anything like Andy, but I have grown in very heavy shade after 230pm daily for the last 15 years. The heavily shaded tree line is due west of my garden and if I run my plants facing west, they will grow that way and don't try turning back east on their own (enough that I have noticed). I have even had years where I let field pumpkins go wild and I do nothing, and a few have made it into the base of the woods with pumpkins growing in there.

5/22/2026 6:06:50 PM