Re: seed strings...
Larry,
With both your 1190 and 1131 pumpkins having very few seeds, I think
there might be a balance to your soil that stops the pumpkin from maturing
and keeps it in the growth stage. You would be one lucky guy to have two, so
called silver bullet seeds, from two different pumpkins in one year. Somehow
it seems something in your soil or the balance of those "something's" was
just right to keep the pumpkin growing and trying to get to it's final stage
of seed growth to no avail. It just might prove to be Ironite. I find it
interesting you have clay and coal as a base soil. Just what are the elements
in coal, there might lie the answer too. What was the differences of your
soil this year compared to last, what did you do different this year to last?
I'm sure the answer is in your soil that made them grow and both produce so
few seeds. I've seen a chart that shows how water and nutrients move through
soil types. Clay has the widest horizontal spread of water and the slowest
vertical movement, keeping all nutrients closer too the root system for the
longest time. So with clay any thing you put down for fertilizer will stick
around longer. People with sandy soil need to fertilize and water much more
often. What ever it is, you've hit on it, if we can determine what it is the
1500lb pumpkin is not to far off. I'd love to see you plant a Mombert 567.5
to see how it would do in your soil.
Alan R.
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