Pumpkins can be grown from cuttings (known as pumpkin cloning). Normally you'd burry part of the vine in a pot, wait a week or so for it to establish itself in the pot, then sever it from the main vine. This ability is also used to help grow bigger pumpkins; you can cover the vine in dirt to encourage the vine to grow roots to help feed the plant. Pictured here is the end of the vine that was left after I cut away the part of the vine I cracked. It was in the way anyway, running over a steping stone to the back door. If I hadn't stepped on it yesterday someone would have done so eventually. I'm hoping covering this end in dirt will help save that possibly fertilized baby pumpkin seen in the previous entry. Here you can also see an end of another part of the orig. plant, and some immature male flowers on the part of the vine I'm trying to save.