Re: How to keep my fruit from splitting

Brian,
You're up there among some of the finest growers of many of the largest
pumpkins in the world, so you should be getting advice from your neighbors,
since they share your climate. Are you a member of the Pacific Northwest
Giant Pumpkin Growers or the Pacific Giant Vegetable Growers? Talk to the
Hollands at hollandsgiants@msn.com for the PNWGPG or Jack LaRue at
Jasher@thurston.com for the PGVG.
AG growers are fine generous people, notable for helping each other.
Good luck this season and always! Oh, and go to the weighoff nearest you, no
matter how your season ends. Meet these guys in person, and if you don't get
a bushel of seeds and growing tips ... well, I'll eat my
pumpkin pie.
Kathie
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>From: "Brian" <brian@landreville.org>
>To: pumpkins@hort.net
>Subject: Re: How to keep my fruit from splitting
>Date: Wed, Aug 18, 2004, 7:58 AM
>

> Thank you for the good advice. I went out to measure it this morning, and
> like clockwork it had a split. Just like the other pumpkin, they were both
> 125 pounds looked identical with a deeply concave blossom end. So I just
> have 3 left. One is chugging along at 5 pounds a day. it is up to 83 (wow, I
> don't know why it doesn't just abort) and a couple others that are nothing
> to write home about though I have one I stated late at 37 pounds putting on
> 7 pounds a day which I guess is OK for that weight. It is just next to a
> wood pile where mice live, so who knows how long that will survive. I am
> very disappointed, my plants look great, nice big leaves and flowers, the
> stumps are as big around as a RedBull can. Not many bugs and no mildew. My
> soil is fertile lots of compost. I don't know why the pumpkins are doing so
> bad. I guess one problem might be when most of the flowers were fertilized
> we had a hot snap of over 95 degree temperatures. I don't know if this had
> an effect. I guess for my own sanity I will stop measuring everyday and just
> let the plants do their things. I will try the fish emulsion on the plant
> with the remaining pumpkins. By fish emulsion do you mean something like
> Alaska 5-1-1?
>
> Brian in Seattle
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Pumpkinpirate1@aol.com>
> To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 12:00 PM
> Subject: 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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