MORe: Tall Tales.....
Cliff,
I wonder if there might be a grower component to the overall look of the
pumpkin. Look at Bob Troy's TWO beauties two years in a row.
Mr Ray Barenchi saw my 04 pumpkin today for the first time & immediately was
reminded of the 943 Brock. Last year my 725-lb fruit had good reason to
resemble the 943 Brock since it was grown from that seed. What's my excuse
this year? I'm growing the 1385 Daletas.
I bet others have similar examples?
Kathie
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>From: "Cliff Warren" <cliffrwarren@hotmail.com>
>To: pumpkins@hort.net
>Subject: RE: Tall Tales.....
>Date: Fri, Aug 6, 2004, 7:16 AM
>
> There seems to be a genetic component to the tall leaves. I've always had
> short leaves (which leads me to think that it's cultural), but this year one
> plant has extremely tall (for me, anyway) leaves - the 1005 Mombert.
>
> Strangely, the wind (which toppled many of my sunflowers yesterday...)
> has not affected this plant much. It is also very dense. I avoided a lot of
> pruning early on so as to help the plant in hopes of combating the wind.
> But my other plants received the same treatment, and yet still have short
> stems.
>
> Regards, Cliff
>
> http://idahopumpkin.tripod.com
>
>
>>From: vince <anaid_tecuod@yahoo.com>
>>Reply-To: pumpkins@hort.net
>>To: pumpkins@hort.net
>>Subject: Tall Tales.....
>>Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:32:56 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>I don't like tall leaf stems. They are a problem - making
>>leaves more vulnerable to wind damage and sucking energy from
>>the plant to elevate themselves in the world. My 1230 Daletas
>>plant last year had short stems and the leaves survived the
>>buffeting by the wind much better than my taller plant.
>>
>>I think the leaves that do the tall stem thing are sun seekers
>>- that try to one-up their neighbors to pig out on borrowed
>>rays. So extra tall leaves probably mean that your vines are
>>too close together and the leaves are crowding each other....
>>
>>This year I was meaning to address this problem by spacing my
>>vines farther apart. So I hacked and whacked secondaries with
>>great resolve. I figured that if you have 24" leaves - the
>>vines should be spaced 24" apart...
>>
>>Then I noticed that my leaves this year were as tall as ever -
>>taller than some of my tales... Medusa (1230 Daletas) is
>>particularly tall. How Tall?? I don't know. I do know that I
>>just put 12" extenders on the three-foot risers of my watering
>>system and some leaves are already threatening to overtake
>>them.
>>
>>I measured the leaf diameters of the leaves on the first
>>secondary on Medusa and found the problem. The largest leaf is
>>34" in diameter! This leaf alone covers over 6 square feet!!!
>>The two next to it are 33" in diameter. In fact, every leaf on
>>this vine is over 30" in diameter. That's Medusa for you - big
>>leaves... bigger attitude.
>>
>>So my vine spacing is off again... No surprise. AG's don't
>>particularly like to cooperate with their growers and generally
>>pull off stunts like this to harass those poor fools who think
>>they can tame them.....
>>
>>But my other plant, Little Lilu (1048 Companion), that's
>>another story. The perfect plant... Absolute Perfection. She'll
>>do almost anything I ask - she gave me 30 pounds last night -
>>something I've been begging her for... She surely doesn't like
>>me posting her weight on the web. But, she graciously tolerates
>>my enthusiasm because she's the perfect little lady....
>>
>>http://zunino.net/diana/chronicles/of_lilu.htm
>>
>>vince
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