Re: Bhaskaran Patch 2006 Update #1! Advil time of the year (sore body! :-)
- Subject: Re: Bhaskaran Patch 2006 Update #1! Advil time of the year (sore body! :-)
- From: m*@adelphia.net
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:21:33 -0700
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David,
Do you know where I might get a Frantz seed from?
Thank you
Donald
---- DBHASKARAN@aol.com wrote:
> Howdy from SE Minn!
> We are on track for one of the wettest Aprils ever, so hopefully this will
> help later in the year...just makes a big mess out of digging the holes as I
> dig trenches to drain water. :-)
>
> Here's the lineup this year (10 plants):
> So far I'm 100% on germination (cross your fingers! :-)...have 8 of the 10
> going..started the final 2 yesterday...here is the current lineup:
>
> First 8 that are getting above ground:
> 578 Bhaskaran 05 (1446 Eaton(F) x 1048 Companion) - Risky on color.
> 648 Bhaskaran 05 (1385 Daletas(F) x 798.5 Bhaskaran(?))
> 802 Bhaskaran 05 (981 Zunino(F) x 759.5 Bhaskaran)
> 2 plants of 781.5 Frantz 05 (1101 Northup(F) x 1125 Frantz)
> 2 plants of 501.5 Beachy 02 ( ? x ?) (Grew my 1038 and 987.5 lbers last
> year)
> 670 Daigle 04 (810 Dill 99(F) x 1230 Daleta 01)
>
> Last 2 in the incubator (1 gal milk jug filled with hot water plus Coleman
> cooler - I put in wet paper towel in a ziplock and then once sprouted into a 4"
> pot that is in the cooler and once above ground into an 8" clay pot under
> the grow lights and quickly from there to the garden):
> 1420.5 LaRue 04
> 753 Eaton 04 (1132 Eaton 03 (F) x 842 Eaton 02) - Risky on color.
>
> I've also started a few backups:
> 1036 Companion - a Red/Orange
> 529 Brinkley - Great cross....1385 Daletas x 1048 Companion (red/orange)
>
> I've got two hills(with cheap earth greenhouses) all set up and ready to go
> with heating coils, I try to get the pumpkins out ASAP. What's in the hill,
> you ask? Things added to the 8ft Diameter Circle x 2.5 ft deep (3 hills gulp!
> to go):
> 50/50 on Cow Manure and Compost (no top soil - fresh start each year)
> Lime
> Ironite
> Gypsum
> mychrozzia (sp :-)
> Peat Moss
>
> Wishing you all a fun start to the year!
> David Bhaskaran
> Rochester, MN
>
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