Milk Fed Pumpkin

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Originally Posted by Barbee

We use enormous amounts of water and we bury each node on the plant to encourage more root growth. We are faithful with our disease and bug prevention programs and we baby our plants all season long.

From the sounds of it, the wicking action from milk in a mason jar directly into the vine does increase the water the vine absorbs. And, I have noticed vine nodes do root and a few times I've torn my vine away and weeks later I find a vine growing from a buried node. Each node does seem like it could provide enough water and nutrients to achieve the same effect the mason jar does. Possibly even bigger.

I've read about how farmers in Japan use many similar practices to grow their premium melons, which retail over $100.