Re: Crack in pumpkin

Brian.

From my experience last year... If she split to the core, compost it now! Last year I added much fungicide and insecticide to the inside. It looked fine and even kept growing (althought slow), when we lifted it we got flooded by pumpkin slush from the bottom... and it smelled bad!!

Richard in New-Brunswick Canada

Le 04-08-09, ` 14:55, Brian a icrit :

My split is now huge, though the fruit grew 10 pounds yesterday. It is an
interesting shape and I would like to save it. Is there any way to keep it
from rotting till Halloween?

Brian in Seattle




----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian" <brian@landreville.org>
To: "Pumpkin list" <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: Crack in pumpkin


Thanks for all the advice. The crack goes all the way through to the
cavity
inside. I have 3 more going that are in the 30-50 pound range right now
that are farther along then this last one was a week ago. There are also
many softball to volleyball size ones I will eventually cull, so I am
doing
OK. This one that cracked looked like a wheel of cheese. It was very wide
and flat with very defined ribs. The blossom end is very concave too, I
don't know if this shape really would have been very practical. I had to
keep it propped up with foam packing to keep it from falling on its stem.
As
it grew this was harder to do. So hopefully a few more of mine will make
it
on my two plants. I know I won't have any problem beating my 162 pound
fruit
of last year.

Brian in Seattle



----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Green" <MastaGardener@aol.com>
To: "Brian" <brian@landreville.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: Crack in pumpkin


Brian

Sorry to hear about your fruit. How deep is it really? 1 inch long, or
1 inch deep? I've had some that freaked me out this year the first time
I saw them, but so far they are turning out to be okay. The only thing
I did was put some aloe in the cracks. Fresh is best, but the Banana
Boat bottle of it I have has been working. If it is any deeper than a
1/4 inch, I would suggest using some sort of fungicide too. The aloe,
just like on human skin helps it heal. The aloe may work for you, but
it is best used on smaller cracks to prevent them from getting any
larger. I think it's worth a shot. Try to pollinate something else as
well even though it is a little on the later side. That way you'll have
something going if the pumpkin doesn't hold. Good Luck!

Steve

Brian wrote on 8/7/2004, 1:33 PM:

Yesterday I was celebrating because I had my fist 20 pound day on my
biggest
fruit on the Pugh 520. It was estimated at 120 pounds. This morning I
went out
to it and saw a 1 inch crack on the blossom end. Is this it? My first
inclination was to caulk it with silicone for it is pretty deep. I
know the
standard procedure is to make a past out of fungicide. Do you think
it
is 
probably too big? (I know you can't see it) Should I use the
fungicide? Should
I just figure this pumpkin is done? Any advice will be appreciated.
We 
just
had an inch of rain in 12 hours so this probably contributed I am
assuming.

Brian in Seattle

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