Re: 702
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: 702
- From: b*@pacific.pacific.net (brocfarm)
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 06:29:35 -0800
John, thanks for the report on the 702 and 561.....I think you are doing
great to be at 280' thats where I am seems to me that most monsters are in
the 310-330 by the end of August you are right on track! the mother of the
702 was not a very high pumpkin........I hope the the 561 weighs heavy to
the charts only time will tell........good luck brock
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
>Brock ;
>
>The two 702s that I have growing are doing okay. One of the plants took
>some flooding and it produced mostly pear shaped rough looking pumpkins.
>The other hill had those shape pumpkins on it also except for a couple.
>I am finishing out a pretty symetrical flattish pumpkin.
>
>For me I think I'm doing okay for this year. Next year I'm definitely
>will be involved in composting the patch as I dumped a pick-up load of
>grass cuttings near one plant and when the vines got on it the leaves
>appeared twice the health and size as most of the others.
>
>The largest pumpkin is on the 702, it measured in today with 127.5 C +
>75 F/B + 73 S/S = 280.5 OTT or roughly 453 pounds by chart. How does
>this compare with its mommy at this time ? It has slowed down to about
>16 pounds per day (the past six days). Hoping to beat my official PR of
>567 pounds and unofficial 616. I never kept track before so I don't
>know where I was sizewise before at this time.
>
>Good luck.
>
>Cornhusk
>Southwest Wisconsin
>
>PS -- the 561 has two pumpkins on it both in the 300-400 pound range but
>growth rate is slower, probably because there are two of them on one
>plant. The seeds I'll have from the 702 & 561 pumpkins will be from a
>cross of the two.
>
>Again, thanks for the seed.
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