Re: How do I know?
Brock, I hope you have a pumpkin a little bigger than 15" in 10 days? I
think 20" in 10 days is a good bench mark. I might have a pumpkin set. I
don't have anything that is 10 days old yet. Is it too late to set
pumpkins now?
Jon
At 06:58 PM 7/22/00 -0700, you wrote:
>>Hi-
>> This is my first venture onto the list. Quick question. I just manually
>>pollinated my first fruit and was wondering just how long I must wait until
>>some sign that it worked?
>>Thanks.
>>-Randall
>>
>mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
>
>Just keep doing anything open...........for a while.......if its real
>shinny and 15 inches at day 10 from pollination I think it will be good
>.. most the time are but not gauranteed!!
>
>..BUT ride them out for a while....leaving at least 4- 5 good
>prospects.............until you feel it looks good then .....get down to
>three ............and hang at 2 ................then its all
>guts.......down to one ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,or play it cool at 2........good
>luck Brock
>
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