Re: Heart Like a Wheel - A Patch Update
- Subject: Re: Heart Like a Wheel - A Patch Update
- From: "GardeningExpress" i*@gardeningexpress.co.uk
- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 19:23:51 +0100
- List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/pumpkins/> (Web Archive)
vince her sister here in the UK is at 24.5" on day 10, just measured her!
similar distance out on the plant.
i need to look into this calcium stuff!
----- Original Message -----
From: "vince" <anaid_tecuod@yahoo.com>
To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 5:04 PM
Subject: Heart Like a Wheel - A Patch Update
> Butterball turned 10 days old this morning. She has almost
> doubled her weight since her 9th birthday, and now is a
> whopping 7 pounds of pure gold with a heart shaped like a
> wheel. Didn't quite make 24" in circumference but still a
> respectable size for day 10. I think I'll give her a calcium
> shake today to celebrate...
>
> She's sitting pretty - 17 feet out on the main vine of my 831
> Zunino plant. Check out her stem - it's longer than she is:
>
> http://home.pacbell.net/diana_do/butter/buttercam.htm
>
> My other plant Baby Beluga (1230 Daletas)is still wallowing
> ponderously in the patch, growing slowly with huge leaves and
> thick cantankerous vines. It probably covers 350 square feet
> now. I pollinated a football shaped female 15 feet out on a
> secondary I'm training as the main vine yesterday.
>
> There's something about this plant that makes me think I'm in
> for a whale of a surprise sometime before Halloween. I don't
> what it is... she keeps making these low pitched melodious
> rumblings as she slowly makes her way through the choppy waves
> of the patch...
>
> vince
>
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