Re: what is mw?
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: what is mw?
- From: A* &* S* E* <e*@magma.ca>
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 19:36:08 -0400 (EDT)
At 20:30 23/08/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Alan & Sharon Eaton wrote:
>>
>> At 10:00 23/08/98 -0500, you wrote:
>> >rocky
>> > i'm a little new here and was looking through your seed library and
>> >noticed a question agout the 845 cil. seed this is just an educated
>> >guess but my bet is mark woodward or woodwood or close to that!!
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>> I can help with that one.
>>
>> 845 Ciliberto 95--722 Holland 92 x 511 Woodward 93
>>
>> mother plant x male pollinator
>> plant
>>
>> Al
Eaton
>> >
>> >
>>
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>
>Al
>how are you this year? I hope alittle more optimistic then when we
>talked on the phone? thought i'd give you alittle update on your baby
>941#. maybe we jumped the gun on the mossiac virus call. i think it's
>just a soil ammendment probem. this was a place we were able to plant at
>the last minute and didn't have time to soil test. we did trim some back
>but it showed up spotty and didn't spread like a virus should. the
>pumkin has slowed down alot is very mature looking. very large ribs and
>deep. measures up at 115 x 75 x 75 . should be heavy it looks like it
>will be.
>our other is the one we call our stumpless wonder. we lost the first 3
>foot of stump and main on july 24th. the pumpkin was one month old on
>the 18th of august. it measured 117x 74 x74 on the 19th. we check and
>record every wendnesday. the week before was 100 x 65 x 65. how much
>effect will the stump being gone have on this pumpkin? it is just
>starting to rib some now. it has gained 1 1/4" in height the last 2 days
>I'll update on wednesday evening if you can to know. And thanks for
>verifing the MW thing. not a bad guess for iowa city boy!! lots of luck
>Al and have a fun weigh-off!!
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Dan-I think impossible to guess what affect no stump would bring but you are
doing just fine with that "stumpless wonder" so try to keep it going and
hope for the best.You are covering new territory as far as I am
concerned.--------Al Eaton
P.S.if you convert your OTT inches to lbs and look at averages of several
days (I use 4 days)then the average daily weight gain will give you a better
feel for what is happening.
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