Re: XMAS TREE?! Vine training?!
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- Subject: Re: XMAS TREE?! Vine training?!
- From: "* <r*@kersur.net>
- Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 19:00:45 -0700
Hi Steve,
I don't know about vine training, we just let them do their thing(earlier in
the season, we had a vertical vine-it's true) but when you said about the
guy with the lights, it reminded me of us last year. One week before weigh
off we developed a stem crack, and in the intrest of saving the fruit , we
put a fan on it in an attempt to dry it out. We ran the fan day and night
and kept the area well tented. The result, the crack dried and the pumpkin
made it to weigh-off just fine.
Pumpkin Widow
-----Original Message-----
From: SteveS012@aol.com <SteveS012@aol.com>
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Date: Sunday, August 09, 1998 3:05 PM
Subject: XMAS TREE?! Vine training?!
>O.K., so WHAT EXACTLY is this "Christmas tree" method of vine training?! I
>never saw it mentioned in Langevin's book, or on any web site, or really
>talked about here in detail....so, I have to ask! What IS the best way to
>train vines?!
>
>Oh yeah, I might as well stick an update here about my replacement 627.5
>Hester seed that Brett H. sent me, it SPROUTED! YAY! So now I actually have
it
>growing! FINALLY! Well, of course it is now August, but LEAVE ME ALONE!
Maybe
>we will have a late frost, and if it starts to grow a promising one, I'll
make
>a greenhous over it and rig up heating stuff, I don't care. (Hey it isn't
as
>bad as some guy I heard that actually rigged up flourescent lights over his
>patch and a generator to give it more light. Hmm, he might be on this list
so
>maybe I'll be quiet about it now. We don;t want anyone to get hurt. We just
>want everyone to be happy)!
>Anyway please reply!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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