Re: you are correct sir!!
Lyle wrote : (excerpt)
> 3. I believe that when we got our first 2 days of all day rain for a great
deep
> drenching, (our first since the season began) , the feritlizer had been
> absorbed by the plant, but without all the rain, alot of it laid in the
soil
> waiting for something like this drench. Well, we got the huge rains and it
had
> to sort of activate the dormant fertilizers that were laying deeper than
the
> water usually leached with my daily watering, and possibly kicked the
plant in
> the ass and got it to promote a growth psurt that killed my pumpkin. My
theory
> is backed by the fact that I was only getting 1 inch a day in
circumference,
> and the two days following the rain, I went from 121" to 124. then to 127,
then
> to 129.......... Tell me, what do you think?
Lyle, you may have a point with the fert kicking in and causing an
unbalance. But I think that the water alone could have been enough. I had
one going in early July that did like yours...2 to 3 inches a day and then
BOOM 4 inches, split open! It had been dry for nearly two weeks, then a 24
hr downpour , then a hot sunny day and the result was 4 inches and a cross
rib split. I had quit using fert during setting, so fert was not an issue
here. My guess is that any type of unbalance, be it water, fert, soil chems,
or any thing else can cause pumpkin failures.
Just my unexperienced two cents worth...
Till next time....
Rock jenaipas@netrover.com
http://www.pumpkinsontheweb.freeservers.com
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