Re: Gash in skin of young fruit
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Gash in skin of young fruit
- From: G*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:23:13 EDT
In a message dated 4/28/99 6:13:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
COMPUTRESE@aol.com writes:
<< Subj: Gash in skin of young fruit
Date: 4/28/99 6:13:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: COMPUTRESE@aol.com
Sender: owner-pumpkins@mallorn.com
Reply-to: pumpkins@mallorn.com
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
Hi, everyone!
Need experienced help here...accidentally nicked the skin of one of my young
fruits growing on the vine. Fruit is about basketball sized, and is round
and
lovely.
This happened about four days ago while attempting to cover the growing
fruit
with an open ended box for sun shade. The box made contact with the top of
the fruit as I was positioning it. After discovering the gash Monday, I've
sprayed it with Captan twice daily. Should it heal over?
I immediately recalled carving names in the skins of premature pumpkins as a
child and watching the carvings as the fruit matured. I am hoping AGs are
this tough.
The nick or gash, I guess you would say is about an inch long and about 1/8
th inch deep.
Help?
Barb
>>
You've treated it correctly. It should heal but sometimes a cut at that
stage in the Pumpkin's growth can cause it to explode, try and back off on
water a bit until it heals. I personally would use a shade cloth to protect
the fruit. Less chance of damage and lets a little sun through to help
prevent disease.
George
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