Re: Food for thought
- To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
- Subject: Re: Food for thought
- From: "* B* <w*@vrn.iscorltd.co.za>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 09:16:53 +0200
i find that when you water the plants at night time and the leafs are wet,
then a white vinges start growing on the leafs. after a day or two, all the
leaves got it . then the plant start dying. it hapend to me last year.
wally from sa
-----Original Message-----
From: rocky.r <rocky.r@cyber-quest.com>
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Date: Thursday, August 13, 1998 5:07 AM
Subject: 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.
>--
>Lyle "Rocky" Rockwell
>
>website: http://home.cyber-quest.com/rocky.r
>
>email: rocky.r@cyber-quest.com
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