Re: Green with envy
>I'm so green I could be a squash. So it's my first year, still I thought
>I could almost accidentally grow a hundred pounder, having been avidly
>reading these posts for 11 months, having read the two Langevin books
>and the Rado guide, and having grown wonderfully healthy pie pumpkins in
>the past. Six or seven wonderful experienced growers have sent me seeds,
>even more than that have sent me personal replies to my queries.
>Here you've all counting your growth in inches OTT for six weeks or
>more, while I have ONE nice pumpkin, just larger than a basketball, and
>while - unlike my two earlier fruits - has not yet shown signs of rot,
>it grows no more than half an inch a day. Gosh, it's gorgeous, but is it
>retarded? WHAT am I doing wrong?
>Kathie
>
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How much are you watering??....................did you get a soils
test??................was Boron too high??.......................... there
are two ends to the spectrum of posibilities. One fert way out of balance
and high and two trouble in the root zone fungal.............examine the
health of the stump......any signs of rot??
MB
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