Re: Green with envy
they do take time before they really take off in there life cycle but you
could get a 100lber still.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kathie Morgan <fishrap@netdex.com>
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Date: 26 August 2001 20:37
Subject: 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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