Re: Season Ender Oregon Update

  Sorry to hear about the patch.  The same thing happened to me in early 
June with my big maxes and the first 7 feets of my ag's.  I hope your 
pumpkins are not destroyed.  I know I had bruises in my pumpkins but they 
were still ok and didn't rot.  I hope the same happened to you.
     Also, if the pumpkin is not destoryed, patch it up, paste the holes and 
hope you get some growth.  Even though the leaves are shredded, they will 
still produce.  Don't be to eager to take your pumpkins off.  I bet you can 
still get a few llbs out of her.


>From: Orion910@aol.com
>Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>Subject: Season Ender Oregon Update
>Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 16:53:14 EDT
>
>In my 27 years of living I have never seen a true thunderstorm here in this
>area.  Last night it happened.  It started off as a few lightning strikes, 
>no
>prob, I can deal, then came the rain.  In the first wave we received 1.2
>inches in 20 minutes.  Lightning and wind not too bad, I was digging moats
>around the prospects to keep the water from going underneath the fruit when
>my hair stood up on end and lightning struck anly a tenth of a mile away in
>the test patch.  Then came a nasty gust of wind followed by the biggest 
>hail
>I have ever seen in real life.  I tried to save all the fruit but I 
>couldn't,
>The shade structures blew off and that was it.  I couldn't see in the dark
>and I couldn't stay in the patch with lighting hitting within 500 feet of 
>me,
>I was un-nerved and had to give up, I couldn't save them.
>This morning I was up at dawn to see what was left, and it wasn't a
>nightmare.  I videotaped the whole event up to the point when it became
>obvious this wasn't just a cool storm, and now all leaves are severely
>damaged, all fruit are cratered and bruised and 1999 is over.  The stats 
>are
>on the storm top gust 53 MPH, 2.8 inches of rain in less than one hour, 
>half
>inch hail for roughly 5 minutes, and over 100 lightning strikes within one
>mile of my home according to the local storm reporting station.
>My largest fruit was on the 801.5 stelts at an estimated 276 pounds for the
>record books.  All but about 5% of my vines were terminated and buried, so
>there is littel hope for a reprieve.
>Good luck to the rest of you out there, and I'll get the hazelnuts ready.
>Whats everyone planting in 2000?
>Brett  The Pumpkinguru  Hester
>
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