Re: XMAS TREE?! Vine training?
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- Subject: Re: XMAS TREE?! Vine training?
- From: "* <r*@kersur.net>
- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 20:28:33 -0700
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From: SteveS012@aol.com <SteveS012@aol.com>
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Date: Monday, August 10, 1998 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: XMAS TREE?! Vine training?
>oops! the reply got postred to the wrong subject. Weird!
>
>>Ah, Christmas Tree. My pumpkin plants are all on the 90 degree principle.
>>Imagine a, old tv antenna, those aluminum ones that look like the frame of
a
>>kyte, and then Imagine one the size of your plot, then imagine your
pumpkin
>>plant like that frame. You have the main brace, and many side branches
>coming
>>at a 90 degree angle to the main brace. Sunlight is much like tv signals
in
>>term of pumpkin growing. Overlapping the aluminum branches does you no
good,
>>nor does overlapping vine and leaves. Keep those plants manicured and
>>remember, symetry is the key. Scar sits at 297 total inches.
>>Brett
>
>O.K., but now I have two questions. First, do you ever decorate the
"branches"
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If you ask me, I'd say a couple good sized AG's rate as pretty sustantial
ornaments from were I see it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
P.W.
>with ornaments? (Or ever have an uncontrollable urge to)? And second, does
the
>pumpkin growing on the plant ever pick up any broadcast signals? (I guess
that
>wouldn't HURT it if it did! Well, unless it was picking up reruns of "Full
>House" or anything off of the WB).
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