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Re: exploding pumpkins!! (Me too)

In a message dated 97-08-15 11:33:06 EDT, ANDERSEN.CHRISTIAN_D@SEATTLE.VA.GOV
writes:

<< Subj:	exploding pumpkins!!
 Date:	97-08-15 11:33:06 EDT
 From:	ANDERSEN.CHRISTIAN_D@SEATTLE.VA.GOV
 To:	pumpkins@athenet.net
 
 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.
  >>
Had a 400 pounder split at the blossom end two days ago.......  It was my
biggest one at 114.5 and growing 1.5 inches a day.  Some just do not develop
a thick enough wall at the blossom end to survive.  There is a soil
deficiency, (either Calcium or Mag can't remember which), of that encourages
this but I do not have either.  Have two others, one looks promising.  

George
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