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exploding pumpkins!!

Greetings,
 
       What a shock I had last night to come home and find one my better
pumpkins had exploded.  I had read a lot about this phenom. here on the
computer but thought that it was paranoid pumpkin talk.  Does anyone know
what causes this?   Is it a sign of a soil nutrient/fertalizer problem?
It was as if the fruit was made of safety glass, and someone had shot a
bullet at it.
       It also amazes me what internal preasure these things have.  The
other day when cutting some extras from the vine, I sliced open a pumpkin
to inspect the inside.  When the knife went in the fruit seemed to
immediately split open.  Oh well, I just hope this doesn't happen too many
more times.
 
 
                               Chris Andersen,
                               Seattle, Wa.
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