Re: Food for thought
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Food for thought
- From: b*@pacific.pacific.net (brocfarm)
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 20:44:45 -0800
>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.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Ok, drip only in the evening.....and would you want to warm it as not to
cool the soil temp...........?? my feelings on the spot is it will be
fine......................460 is excellent!! keep up the good work! In our
hearts we know theres no difference between squash and pumpkins,,,but its a
curveball in the game........too bad.....know it well!! Quite the
anthropology..............study ............so we choose a color to mean
this or that!! And then put a value on it........too wild........MB
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