Re: Butterball Blows By Baby Beluga - A Patch Update

Nice pictures.  Good music to view pumpkins by.

Vince, what are those white strings or ropes around your plants, and what
is their purpose?



At 06:39 PM 6/26/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>It's 96 degrees in the shade today in sunny California - only
>the second hot day of the season and quite a shock for my two
>pumpkin plants... both of them drooping and obviously
>uncomfortable.
>
>Some of the young leaves are burning - under a heavy shade
>cloth... toasting the warm weather!!!  I used to watch the
>young leaves burn before I used shade cloth.  Now, I watch them
>burn under the shade cloth.... 
>
>Well, anyway, this way I feel more proactive and the plants
>seem to appreciate my concern. They still burn, however, when
>the weather does a flip flop from cold to real hot - toughens
>their hides and gives them attitude.... I like to think anyway.
>
>Baby Beluga (1230 Daletas) has suffered with all the chilly,
>windy weather.  After starting as a double vine, the plant
>straightened out for a few leaves and then went back to
>double... double trouble.  After a few feet of real ugly
>nonsense it became clear that the main vine was not gonna split
>into two vines or stop this foolishness - so I wacked it off.  
>
>Th plant has responded to this abuse by becoming a cantankerous
>cuss  - growing slowly with short stubby vines, vines growing
>straight up and leaves that can't get out of each other's
>way... If my wife was this bitchy, I'd kick her out of bed...
>but with no backup I guess I'm married to this cuss'ed plant. 
>I'm tired of all her lip, however, so every other day I wack
>off a secondary or two to keep her in line and show her who's
>boss.
>
>Butterball (831 Zunino) has taken off like a rocket.  After a
>bad buggy start, this plant has literally exploded in my patch
>- growing so fast I see vapor trails ghosting the growing
>tips.... At just under seven weeks this plant has a 17 foot
>main vine and secondaries over 10 feet long. She's now four
>times the size of Baby Beluga... and growing twice as fast. 
>
>I've lost count of the female buds - 20 or so and she's just on
>the brink of puberty.  I can see the first female bud forming
>in the growing tip of the main vine - 17 feet out from the
>stump.... 
>
>This plant has the dragon roots of her mother the 846 Calai. 
>12 feet from the stump, I can't put a spade into the ground
>without  bringing up a tangle of feeder roots.... 12 feet from
>the stump!! - even seems to bother the moles.
>
>Every growing season I get a new surprise in the patch. 
>Butterball is so beautiful she has me a bit breathless.... Baby
>Beluga's ugly puss pisses me off just lookin at it.
>
>I've got a picture of both plants at the following link:
>
>http://home.pacbell.net/diana_do/bababoom.htm
>
>vince
>zone 9, the pumpkin zone
>
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