Re: 702 Brock (pollinators)
Speaking of surprises, I have a plant that has really
surprized me. The 570 Maston, was one of my better plants
when, on May 21 it went from the 8 to 10 leaf stage, to
being frozen back to a stump. (We had one of those wild
weather events that caught everyone by surprise... 26
degrees when the prediction was for low 30's. I was protecting
my plants, but this one only had a bucket. A bucket is
not enough at 26 degrees... I could write pages about it...
but I'll spare you the gory details.)
So, here I am at May 21 with a plant that had done very
well, but froze back to a stump, with just a little bit
of "stuff" (hairy little bits of things that eventually
became new vines) alive. I proclaimed, "Oh, I'll leave it,
maybe it'll become a pollinator." "I hear it was orange."
Well, the plant came back strong! The vines are nice and
the leaves are very nice. The leaves are the nicest that
I have this year. The plant seems to have two mains, one
going forward and one going backward. And, I now have one
fruit on each end of the plant.
Regards, Cliff in Idaho
>From: "Glenn Needham" <sven@magma.ca>
>Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
>Subject: Re: 702 Brock
>Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:37:50 -0400
>
>Often this is the case that a plant will surprise you.
>Or it could be that the plant was not over fertilized, over watered, over
>pesticided, over pampered because you did not have big expectations from
>it.
>Good example for me now is a Ciliberto 678 plant which I had extra and
>stuck
>out in the market garden patch - just buried enough vines to keep it from
>blowing away - never had any supplemental water and is one of my fastest
>growers right now!
>
>Glenn
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Smithhisler, Paul" <Paul.Smithhisler@dnr.state.oh.us>
>To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 7:43 AM
>Subject: RE: 702 Brock
>
>
> >
> > Doug Wrote...
> >
> > 'I started a '97 702 as a pollinator but the plant looks so good I've
> > decided to grow a pumpkin on it.'
> >
> >
> > Is it just me, or do most of us do this same thing...start a pollinator
>and
> > then not have the heart to cull it because it looks so good? My best
>fruit
> > so far was open pollinated on the Maston 570, which was intended as a
> > pollinator. I would be interested in other's thoughts!
> >
> > -Gus
> >
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