Re: Slow Day
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Slow Day
- From: P* <P*@aol.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 22:40:32 EST
John,
Anything you can do to reduce the temperature stress will help. Shading,
evaporative cooling, milk crates with ice.....whatever it takes. If you mist
when a flower is open, I think it would be better to devise something to keep
the water out of the female and male flowers that you use to pollinate. Old
leaves do tend to get a little old looking at the end of the year. The crispy
edges could be salt injury, which would be more evident in times of high heat
and evaporation. I would not spray the leaves with any insecticides,
fungicides, foliar fertilizer sprays......I would just use plain water for a
few days until the wicked heat passes. Most patches have enough fertilizer in
them to go for quite a while. It is possible to get damage to your young
tender growing tips when the temperature approaches 100.....shade the ends of
your important vines until the heat passes. I have had the ends of my vines
killed with 100 degree temps.
pumkinguy@aol.com
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