Re: Soft spot - Please HELP!
In a message dated 8/21/2003 11:16:18 AM Eastern Standard Time,
fishrap@earthlink.net writes:
> My Escondida, daughter of the 573 Stucker, has a soft spot about the
> diameter of a pea. This soft spot is topside, and the rest of the
> pumpkin is firm and sound. Is there anything I can do besides kissing
> her goodbye? She's about 86 inches in diameter, and there's another,
> same size, fruit on the plant.
> Thanks!
> Kathie
>
Hi Kathie
As long as it doesn't go all the way thru it may just be a surface spot.
Take a tooth brush with some bleach and water and scub the spot. If it is
just on the outside it will make a small dimple then dry out. If it coming from
the inside the pumpkin is a gonner.
Good luck!
Bill
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