Re: 2000# Pumpkin Paradox
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: 2000# Pumpkin Paradox
- From: O* 9* <O*@aol.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 00:25:04 EST
Hi all,
I thought I might get in on this one too. This last year (1997) I had a plant
which only held one pumpkin. I pollinated by hand, bees, and both, but could
not get another pumpkin on the plant. There was pleanty of space for the
plant to grow, but evey young pumpkin aborted after the first one was set. I
was unable to give it the attention it needed, for it was at my now ex-
fiance's place. I thought it very weird to have one nice fruit, and nothing
else. The mother seed to that plant was my 627.5, which has never had any
problem with fruit set before, in fact it is a fertile buzzard. In this case,
the plant did put all its energy into one fruit.
On the other side of the token, in 1995 (my second year) I didn't know the
importance of pruning back vines, and let my plants just grow at their own
free will. I pinched off excess fruit until September, but then let the plant
set anything it wanted. It was a Nelson 910 plant, and was 112 X 95 feet when
I removed it from the patch. What came off that plant was my #627.5, #558,
#510, #476, #408 and three others over 300 pounds. It doesnt take a genious
to addup that over 3000 pounds of fruit came off that one plant. Now if one
could combine the one fruit only plant with that 3000 pounds of pumpkin
production, well, we should be talking about a 3000 pound paradox. Could a
Nelson 910 X Hester 451 be in in the near future???
Take care,
Brett The Pumpkinguru
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