Pumpkin cloning update

It seems my pumkin plant takes very well to being cloned. The end of the vine I covered in dirt in order to save the baby pumpkin that might have been fertalized is still alive and growing. The flower on that baby pumpkin hasn't fallen off though, and from what I have read if it was fertalized it should have. That now seperate plant has another female flower on it that I think might open this week, and there are males on the orig. plant that are about the same age, so I'm going to let the new plant keep growing.

In related news, there is a female flower that looks like it will open any time now, and again males of about the same age. I'm going to try fertalizing it myself so that I can be relitively sure that at least one of the females was fertalized.

Back to talking about cloning... When I trimed off the cracked segment of vine and tried to keep the severed end live, I figured since I was hacking off peices I might as well take off some other ends. I trimed a vine that was heading into a large flowering bush beside the fence, and a vine that was creeping across the steping stones and would likely be steped on anyway.
After trimming I had a few segmants of the pumpkin plant. Some I just left on the lawn with other pruned plants, two others I put in pots with dirt. The next day I was looking at the peices of pumpkin plant on the pile of prumings and decided to expriment with cloning a bit more. I picked out a few peices and cut them back a bit to remove dried out ends and to make the cuttings a more manageble size, brought two inside to put in water, and another I stuck in the dirt around the severed vine/new plant. All three peices are still alive and growing.
They all have their leaves looking perky, the flowers on them (both male and female) seem to still be growing (one male is pretty tall, I'd say a week or so from blooming), the curling tendrals are getting longer and are still curling, and I think I see the beginings of roots on the cut ends.
I brought in the bit of vine I just stuck in the dirt, it's in the glass of water with the other two.
The two in pots are looking a little patetic, but seem to still be growing, but the ones in water are doing better and I think I might just un pot them in a day or so if they don't perk up more.

So, out of one pumpkin seed I now have 7 geneticly identical pumpkin plants. Two planted in the yard, 5 cuttings. I plan to take more cuttings from more of the vine I have to trim back, keep them growing over winter, and then plant them around the yard to see if there is a better spot for them where they thrive but won't risk being steped on.

I'm going to need more pots.