Re: Food for thought
I almost always water at night and have never noticed this on pumpkins, I havc
seen a whitish residue (for lazck of a better name) on zucchini but it did not
affect growth on them in favt I just harvested 3 zucchini averaging 28". Id sure
like to hear if night watering is a mistake. thanks mike in anc
Wally Badenhorst wrote:
> 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
> >
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