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Janet. This sport of ours is a heart breaker. But
one must look at why he or she failed and try to correct our mistakes. Even the
great ons have a bad year. so try to figure out why they died and correct it
next year. Living in california you might even till the patch up and start over
this year won't make the weighogg but i bet you could get a nice size pumpkin by
thanksgiving. best wishes mark
----- Original Message -----
From:
T*@cs.com
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 8:58
PM
Subject: complete, utter humiliating
failure
List,
I have been postponing writing this
because I have been hoping against
logic to have different news to report.
The sad fact is that I have failed
completely this year. Both the 337
Wilbers and the 520.4 Wilbers
have stopped growing as vines altogether. No
more new leaves, no
male or female flowers. The plant is not pushing new growth of any form.
The
520.4
Wilburs did set 2 pumpkins that grew to soccer ball
size, but they both got
soft and rotted. The 520.4 is in the same state of
stasis as the 337. I have
no clue as to what is going on. I
fertilized at my usual times with 20/20/20
and this year I also applied
fish emulsion twice.
The 337
Wilbers' leaves are now brown and crispy, I will be pulling it
this
weekend in hopes of trying to grow jack-o-lanterns at least by
Halloween.
I don't want to be further humiliated by having to BUY pumpkins.
That
would be more than my battered ego could take.
The 520.4 is still green but is not
putting out any new growth or
flowers, I will continue to monitor this
plant, maybe something will happen.
If
anyone has any ideas why these plants would just stop growing and
fail to
set any pumpkins, I will entertain suggestions, criticism and even
ridicule if it will help me next year.
Hanging my head in shame,
Janet Miyamoto
Fresno, California
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