| 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
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