Re: Spot on Top of Pumpkin
- Subject: Re: Spot on Top of Pumpkin
- From: F* B* <s*@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:15:45 -0700 (PDT)
Steve,
Yeah, my first 2 guesses would be the same as Alan's...I hope it is not the
1st. If however you have experienced some hot whether recently, it could also
be a "burn". A burn can result on a hot day if you have a place on the very
top of the pumpkin that can collect a small amount of water. The sun will
bake the standing water and could burn the skin before evaporating. Also, if
you have a tarp that may be hanging too low, any type of moisture, usually
morning dew, can create a temporary adhesion of the tarp to the skin of the
pumpkin and when the sun beats down onto the tarp, it can burn the pumpkin
skin at the contact point. Of course these burns may be more of a southern
occurrence as it does seem to get a little warm down here. I'm hoping for
anything but number 1 ;) BF
PS. Alan if you read this, are you growing in CT or FL or both this year?
--- On Thu, 7/23/09, Steve Minor <minok2014@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Steve Minor <minok2014@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Spot on Top of Pumpkin
> To: pumpkins@hort.net
> Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 9:02 PM
> Just noticed a brownish gray area on
> top of my beach-ball sized
> pumpkin, about
> 1x3 inches. It isn't soft, but is slightly
> sunken. Any
> ideas on what it
> could be? Thanks. Steve.
>
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