Re: Is there any explanation
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Is there any explanation
- From: b*@pacific.net (Vickie Brock)
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 15:57:12 -0300
>Here's another question. If what these things need is warmer nights
>late in the season, then why aren't there more records from farther
>south? Are the pumpkins just so disadvantaged from the excess heat
>through midsummer that they have no chance by September and the warmer
>nights become irrelevant? I thought I had heard that the reason
>larger pumpkins grow farther north is because they need COOLER nights
>than we get, for instance, here in the DC area.
>
>I had suspected the big ones needed the greater hours of daylight that
>more northerly latitudes get.
>
>The fact that that there is a circadian rhythm is not surprising. The
>question is can we manipulate that to enhance pumpkin growth.
>
>Cooler nights?? Longer days?? Do I need to get an air conditioner for
>these hot nights? Oh dear, if we're talking circadian rhythms, I bet
>Marv is already stocking up on melatonin to inject into his pumpkins!
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Hi Beth,
It wasn't till last year when Chris Andersen in Ca.. misted to keep his
plants cooler did anyone think that you could do what he did 977....perhaps
sun and mist rounded out to 80... It was always thought here in CA. that
you needed cooler temps and you had to live in Canada to pop a big
one..perhaps places in Canada have the ideal climate....perhaps in that
neck of the woods they are more experienced growers at this game.......here
in Cal. were just getting started there are maybe 50 very serious growers
here in all of California!!......and the further south I think is just
awakening to the sport.........I think that it is true for the southern
states its just being born.........but one thing i know is you need heat to
grow pumpkins not the scorcher heat thats in excess....... but the type if
we mist maybe will get that ideal 80 to 86........and of course all the
other variables have to be perfect.....if you want that killer
monster.....
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