Re: Splitsville
Your description sounds like a "Dill Ring". If that is the case there is
nothing you can do, at the point of the ring the wall is at is most fragile,
thus this is where the pumpkin would crack.
Dave
Sterling, MA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Crews" <bigandorange@shaw.ca>
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 12:35 AM
Subject: Splitsville
Hi List. We just had a very cold August which was strange considering
that in June and July we were very hot with temperatures in the 35-37º
Celsius range almost continuously. My best plant, the 1064.5 Needham,
had 2 pumpkins which were growing very slowly the whole month up to the
middle of last week. After 2 inches of rain and temperatures that went
back up from 15º Celsius range to the 30º Celsius range, my pumpkins
started to grow at about 30 lbs. a day again. Can you guess what
happened?? Split across the ribs big enough to put my thumb into it.
Autopsy results show a giant crack running radially around the whole
pumpkin. I cut it into pieces in the patch, threw it in the truck and
weighed it at the weight scales. It was 704 lbs. It had thick walls
which I think may have contributed to the crack. Final measurements
were 154 inches circumference, 87 stem to blossom and 85 side to side.
I still have one more pumpkin on this plant and two more on a 1020
Papez plant that are all almost the same size at 275 ott.
Glenn, if you are out there, can you tell me the nature of the split on
your 1064.5. I am curious if this is the same type of split that you
had. This is a great pumpkin for my area and I am going to grow this
pumpkin again.
Thanks...
Don
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