Re: Down-Under



Stewart
Keep the information coming,,,,,,,,love reading about a growing plant, when
the soil is nearly frozen here in Pennsylvania. 
 
Will you be updating your home page soon with pictures from this year? 

For anyone who hasn't seen it, Stewart has a real nice page with quite a few
pictures from past years, located at    
http://www.pcug.org.au/~sdeans/


Good Luck, Stewart 
keep the updates coming.

Marv Hicks



In a message dated 12/19/98 1:59:48 AM Eastern Standard Time,
sdeans@pcug.org.au writes:

<< My favoured plant is the Andersen #815 but have a couple of Ryans #454
 (local).
 The Andersen main vine is now approaching the 4 m (13 ft) mark (growing
 about 3 ft per week) and two female (unpollinated) flowers are visible near
 the end of the main vine. I am curving the vine "S" now so the females will
 be on the outer radius.
 
 I have experienced some damage to leaves which I put down to insect pest and
 have been more vigilant with insecticide since. Last year on the group there
 was talk of motorised fogging machines so I traded in some unused equipment
 and got a secondhand machine. It is a bit rough and held together with duct
 tape but seems to do a good job.
 
 I have been training the vine in the Xmas tree style. Currently most
 secondaries are only about 4 ft long.
 We experienced about 3 days of 100 degree heat so I installed some shade and
 sprayers to help cope with that although the temperatures have been moderate
 since then.
 
 This year I got an article published in the local paper (me and my pumpkin)
 and the jorno has been putting my tips in her column (so far weekly) so I am
 hoping this will encourage local growers.
 
 Currently I am concerned that I should be adding N to the patch but looking
 at the leaves (Andersen) they are dark green so I feel that the levels must
 be high enough. I also lost one fruit last year to blossom-end rot so intend
 adding Calicum Nitrate as fruit grows but don't want to overdo the Nitrogen
 in the process.
 
 I have just bumped up the watering time on the computer but don't have any
 feel for whether I am giving too little or too much. I feel I can't be too
 far off as plant is growing well.
  >>
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