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Your right about the 835, take good care of that
one......have a nice one growing on an 835 as well.....great
plant......wayne
-----Original Message-----
From:
andy wolf <f*@eznet.net>
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Date:
Monday, July 31, 2000 10:57 PM
Subject: Big 'Ol Allegany
update
Well, I know some of you have been waiting to hear how I'm
doing, so here it is. My best shot right now is probably my 1009.5
Eaton. I have a ghostly white, perfectly shaped 4 lobe pumpkin set on
the main. I measured it yesterday morning before I left for Ohio, and
it was 57", and that was at 20 days after pollination. I measured
it again tonight at about 8:00, and it is now 64" in
circumference. It's been dry, but the last two days it has been
raining, so of course I'm getting worried. My 535* has 2 good
ones on it, one on the main, and one on a big secondary. Both around
50 pounds. Beautiful green. I've got one on my 445 from last
year, at a little over 100#, but it's pretty old. Hoping for at least
300#, and will probably take to an early festival. My 835 McIntyre is
one of the most beautiful plants I've seen, but is was planted later, and
only has one on the main a few days old. I am going to cut my 792
plant in half to give the 835 more room, since the 792 isn't doing that
well, and I only planted it for a pollinator anyway. My 909.5 Lloyd is
starting to get me really mad. It was the first planted, but has
nothing of size on it, because everyting is aborting at about softball
size. If this keeps up, I'm going to cut off about a quarter of the
vines to give more room to my 792 geerts, whish is doing ok, but was planted
later. In a seperate patch, I have another 535* and 734 Marcellus,
planted about a foot and half from each other. The 734 was dug up by a
woodchuck right after transplanting, so I threw a 535* seed next to it in
case it died. The 734 made a miraclous recovery, but I didn't have the
heart to pull either, since I didn't expect much out of this site
anyway. They're both way behind, about 3' vines, but maybe I'll get
something for halloween. I've got one tall sunflower, about 3.5'
now. My long gourds were going like crazy, climbing up the trees until
the birds tried landing on the tips. Should be enough secondaries for
the plant to recover. I've got a few pictures on my website, taken
tonight. It's at: http://home.eznet.net/~farm
Andy Wolf
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