RE: What is this wound?
Thanks everyone for replying. It has just happened again & it could very well
be that the shade material touched the fruit, though it hasn't been higher
than the mid 80's here. I'm using a heavy brown plastic held up above with
pvc. I noticed it yesterday night and it just looked the same color as
everything but sunk in, about 6-7" long. The original wound is pictured with
white (daconil) just below it.
http://mysite.verizon.net/~korney19/081605002.jpg
http://mysite.verizon.net/~korney19/081605003.jpg
This morning it looked the same and I decided to leave the shade cover off and
when I looked at it tonight it was nearly as white as the coated wound. I made
a much bigger shade structure and it's covered back up, taking every
precaution that it's not touching the fruit, I'll check it again tomorrow
night when I measure it to see if it changed or leaked.
On a sadder note, the pumpkin I decided to keep (the one above I cut the
secondary off the main) developed some cracks across the grain and a soft spot
in the stem. I tried spraying with some sulfur based fungicide then mixed up
some captan paste & poured/wiped it on. I had a whole house fan pointed at it
for about 8-10 hours and will check it in the morning if it healed up or
started oozing.
And last but not least, this plant was pretty aggressive compared to others
I've grown; it climbed some 55 gallon drums and 6ft concrete reinforcing wire
mesh I use for tomato cages and is almost on top of my garage & shed roof,
where it set a fruit about 25" circ @ 7 days about 8 to 9ft up in the air that
I can't get to.
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of
Joe Pukos
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 9:07 PM
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Subject: Re: What is this wound?
Mark,
I had a similar looking spot a few years ago. I was using a white piece of
cloth to cover a young fruit. The cloth had one dark spot it, that I did not
even give a second thought about. During a 90 + degree day, the sun
basically cooked the outer skin on the fruit right under that dark area. The
cooked area was about 1 inch in diameter and stayed a shining indented white
dot right up until fall. I was a little embarrassed having to explain how it
got there (lol!), but as the fruit grew, it was never a problem other than
cosmetic.
Joe Pukos
Leicester, NY USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark K." <korney19@verizon.net>
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 3:23 PM
Subject: What is this wound?
> This first appeared as a depression and then the next day or two later
> looked
> something like this. The pic was taken half in the shade, half bright
> light.
> You can see the depth of it, about 1/4" or more. It was brighter yellow
> the
> first day or 2. It's now about 1" x almost 3" and I haven't treated it
> with
> anything--it looks like an open wound but it's not really. It's on the top
> surface and the pumpkin is shaded with a pvc frame with 6 mil brown
> plastic.
> I
> thought maybe I sprayed something and it puddled but that can't be it, and
> no
> animals, bites, scratches, bumps, gouges, etc.
>
> http://mysite.verizon.net/~korney19/08070502.jpg
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mark
>
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