Re: Food for thought
brocfarm wrote:
>
> So here is some food for thought!........too hot here to do any work
> ....but for the pumpkin maniacs ....wheels don't stop ticking....Bob Troy
> ask a great question his vines at the bottom of a slope are looking larger
> than those on level ground..........is gravity a benefit...???.......Now
> heres another bizarre observation.......I found a tap root off the main
> dripping like a faucet..pre dawn.....then the sun comes up and by 8:30 and
> it shuts off....this went on for weeks....this is telling us
> something....if water is flowing that fast in the dark should we ground
> water at night???
>
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Brock,
I water around 9 pm every night. I do not have time in the morning to
do it, soI have always watered at night, even though alot of people say
do not do it. I put down abou t50-75 gallons a day on my 460 pound
squash, and it seems to be doing fine.. The only problem I have
encountered is a small spot on the underside (where the dirt meets the
squash) that at first I thought was caused by a slug. I went into
Langevins book, and I am now coninced it might be a spot of gummy stem
blight. I cleaned the area, and applied a captan paste, and now I am in
a wait and see mode.
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Lyle "Rocky" Rockwell
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email: rocky.r@cyber-quest.com
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