Re: What is this wound?

To me it looks like a burn. If the "brown heavy" plastic was against the
fruit it was hot due to brown being a dark color in the spectrum and dark
colors absorb all the sunlight, black would even be worse. All the light
being absorbed makes it much hotter than the air temp of 80s. Easily
reaching the 100 mark or more. I use a light blue tarp on my shade
structures and drape a white sheet over each of them to reflect all sunlight
and they dry quickly as well. The Daconil is good as long as it didn't cook
further into the fruit.    Don

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark K." <korney19@verizon.net>
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 10:32 PM
Subject: 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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