Re: sand and fruit protection

Where can Captan be purchased?  I use Daconil but am wondering if Captan is 
better.

Debbie





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From: Steve Minor <minok2014@yahoo.com>
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Sent: Sun, August 1, 2010 8:25:31 PM
Subject: Re: sand and fruit protection

Dave,

Daconil and Captan have become my good friends this year.  I'm about to spray
applications of calcium to the outside of my fruit to help fortify it. 

Thanks for another tip on being proactive growing AGs(Daconil on both ends).

In this business, better to be safe than sorry.

Measured my largest pumpkin today.  On track for first 1000 pound fruit. 

Cross my fingers and hope to win the lottery.

Steve

--- On Sun, 8/1/10, dbhaskaran@aol.com <dbhaskaran@aol.com> wrote:

From: dbhaskaran@aol.com <dbhaskaran@aol.com>
Subject: Re: sand and fruit protection
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Date: Sunday, August 1, 2010, 8:51 PM

Steve,
You're welcome. Well, I've been growing big pumpkins for 40 years, but I
always seem to learn each year also!  LOL.
I have a bunch of High Maintenance Pumpkins this year, which means, they get
growth "marks" that cut into the fruit on the back and stem areas....so I
normally paint on the daconil to insure they don't rot (great way to keep
pumpkins going into Oct) but then need to insure the sheet doesn't  smother
it
out too much...so putting up the stake in front (and will for the back) helps
in dry and "heal" the area.
In fact, painting daconil on the blossom end and stem areas before trouble
happens is not a bad idea...even the stump area.  Things I do as we get into
Aug, as the pumpkins get into old fruit and tough to manage!
We're having a good year in MN, so need to make hay while we do have a good
year, weather wise!
Good luck to all!
David Bhaskaran
Rochester, MN






-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Minor <minok2014@yahoo.com>
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Sent: Sun, Aug 1, 2010 7:06 pm
Subject: Re: sand and fruit protection


Dave,
I for one appreciate your input.  You helped me a lot last year, and I'm
doing
uch better this year.  You always manage to come up with juicy little tidbits
f info like the stakes to drape the sheet over, fore and aft.
Your help enables me to help others and pay it forward.
Steve Minor
--- On Sun, 8/1/10, dbhaskaran@aol.com <dbhaskaran@aol.com> wrote:
From: dbhaskaran@aol.com <dbhaskaran@aol.com>
ubject: Re: sand and fruit protection
o: pumpkins@hort.net
ate: Sunday, August 1, 2010, 6:48 PM
Debbie,
y suggestion would be to run both...which is what I have done now for 2
ears
ow.  I didn't like  just the sheet, as we get periods of too much wetness so
unning both of them protects the pumpkin from some of the sun that my 6
arps
nd 10 fence posts allow in. (6x8 tarps)
have put down wet sand before but it seems to dry with a few days...so I
on't think you need to worry.
also dig a trench around my pumpkins tents so that water hitting the tarps
nd dropping...goes into a trench and away from the pumpkin, plus this also
uts the pumpkin on "higher ground" due to the trench and thus more drying.
Also becareful with the MV and the tarps rubbing on them if you use it and
lso if you use the sheet on the pumpkins...make sure the front and back get
ome  "air"...I use a small stake in front of the pumpkin and put the sheet
ver it...thus giving the them stem area some "air".
Hope this helps.
ood luck.
avid Bhaskaran
ochester, MN




----Original Message-----
rom: Debbie Runkle <yorunk13@att.net>
o: pumpkin <pumpkins@hort.net>
ent: Sun, Aug 1, 2010 9:07 am
ubject: sand and fruit protection

hat type of fruit protection is recommended?  I am currently using a tarp
ay
d night, but noticed that there isn't a whole lot of air movement.  Now I am
ndering about just using a sheet on the pumpkin during the day and removing
t
t night.  We have alot of humidity, esp. at night.  That leads me to my next
estion.
have sand under the pumpkins.  Yesterday I removed as much of the play
and,
at I had originally used, and replaced it with all purpose sand.  I found
hat
he play sand held too much moisture and was damp right out of the bag.  This
rning all of the sand is damp.  The ground is pretty moist due to some
ecent
ins.  The pumpkins were covered with tarps so no rain got on it or the sand,
t the sand seems to be absorbing moisture from the ground. I am worried
bout
e pumpkin rotting.  I don't know if fans would help much since I would most
kely have to keep them on the pumpkins every day.
ebbie
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