Re: How to keep my fruit from splitting
Brian
If there is anyone that knows about splits its ME. I usually take my self out
of competition OH around September 1st or so.. So this is how to NOT split
them.... Ok your pumpkin is growing and yes you want to give it a little better
odds at getting big. go out and buy Fish emulsion and liquid Kelp either
separately or combined and use them as stump drenches. you will have a good pick up
of growth and you won't be pounding them with synthetic fertilizers when I
have had my best pumpkins (not this year) during my best growth periods I was
putting on one gallon of Safer Brand fish emulsion on the stump per week. Then
like clock work I blew them up by bumping them with a high potassium
fertilizers.
Some pumpkins have a pre set flaw in them and you will split them no matter
what and some form when there are changes in the environment like warm days
cool nights, giving large boosts of fertilizers after long periods of no
fertilizer raising the amount of water you are applying to the patch. Random rain
storm, I usually get it when we have three or four cloudy cool days then BAM back
into the high 80's .
Try the slow and simple routine give your plants 1 cup of fish emulsion in
a 5 gallon bucket with 4 gallons of water as a stump drench every other day.
Of course you can add more BUT we are talking SAFE !! you want that baby as big
as it can get but you also want it to make it to the finish line !!
Hope this helps and good luck on your season..
Kevin Smith ................. Zane's Daddy
Pumpkin Pirate
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