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Bay Area Patch Update

 
A lot of electricity and sparks this morning in the Yin and Yang Patch.  Geneva Electric (922 Emmons) lit up two yellow light bulbs - open for business.  Pollinated both with the 995 Carter.  My other plant, Buttercup (831 Zunino), is more petite, and will not start the fireworks until well after the 4 of July.

I still have the web cam set-up on GE - today you can spot the female on the main - lighting up the patch with that unmistakable visual come-on.  I only wish my wife could be that obvious....

You can find the web cam at:  http://home.pacbell.net/diana_do/geneva/gecam.htm


Geneva Electric flashes a newly lit light bulb on the main vine

Mother nature has not been as kind In the Back Against the Wall patch.  A heat wave the last three days has stir fried both plants.  Audrey, the 995 Carter, was growing much faster and got hit the hardest.  Perhaps 25% of the plant is fried.  My 940 Mombert (98) lost about 15% of it's new leaves.

Audrey has three pollinated pumpkins.  One on a side vine is unusually large - even as a flower.  Never seen this before. It's one big baby.  It's twice as big as the one on the main and has longer thicker stem.  This one makes my head hurt, it's on the wrong vine in an awkward spot, but Jesus - it is BIG and growing fast.  I just can't think about it now, after watching my plants cooking in the sun, I think I had an aneurysm in a frontal lobe somewhere  and my brain is fried.

The 940 Mombert also has three pollinated babies.  One is 8 feet out on the main.  Round as yellow golf balls.  This plant is only 11 feet long but is beefy and picking up.

With a little brain surgery, all systems go here in the beautiful and totally neurotic San Francisco Bay Area.
 

vince
best 831, 2001
zone 9, the pumpkin zone
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