RE: pumpkins DIGEST V1 #70

Rich, all I can say about raccoons and possums here in South Hero, Vermont
is:  I hate them. I've found the best method of control is to bait a large
live trap with sunflower seeds, apples or whatever and then dispose of them
after they're caught.  Traps cost around $75 and last forever.  I don't know
anything about treating teeth marks.  Steve.

--- On Sun, 7/26/09, Richard Briggs <briggsrichard@hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Richard Briggs <briggsrichard@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: pumpkins DIGEST V1 #70
To: "pumpkin" <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Date: Sunday, July 26, 2009, 5:37 AM

Hi Folks,

Starting to get some good growth. I have some beach ball size ones too. I
think I have a couple of Raccoon/ oppossum teeth marks in one. Seems like I
should wax it up? Any good hints for keeping out scavenging animals??
I'm just getting past some SVB damage although 3-4 vines look like they are
going to die-> yellow. I might have to spray again for good measure.
What's the picnic in RI???
Rich Briggs in St. Louis





> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:01:02 -0400
> From: pumpkins-owner@hort.net
> To: pumpkins-digest@hort.net
> Subject: pumpkins DIGEST V1 #70
>
>
> pumpkins DIGEST         Sunday, July 26 2009         Volume 01 : Number 070
>
>
>
> In this issue:
>
>         Re: Spot on Top of Pumpkin
>         Re: pumpkins DIGEST V1 #68
>         Spot on Top of Pumpkin
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:54:30 -0400
> From: mastrpumkn@aol.com
> Subject: Re: Spot on Top of Pumpkin
>
> Brian
> ????? Growing in FL this year. Just harvested the seeds from the last one
here. Did not weigh any of them. Started to late, then 30" of rain in 3 days.
Had some nice ones, just didn't get the growth. Maybe 500-600lb. Hope to be
in
RI for the Picnic. Are you growing?
>
> ???? Alan
>
>
> - -----Original Message-----
> From: Fawcett Brian <scpumpkinman@yahoo.com>
> To: pumpkins@hort.net
> Sent: Fri, Jul 24, 2009 11:15 pm
> Subject: Re: Spot on Top of Pumpkin
>
>
>
> 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.
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Pumpkin-growing archives: http://www.hort.net/lists/pumpkins/
> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:26:23 -0700
> From: Jason Thomas <j.endlesstrail@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: pumpkins DIGEST V1 #68
>
> I wouldn't keep the one with growing blossom up unless you reposition
> it. Can you reposition it by cutting any roots off vine within 1-2
> feet either side of fruit? Once roots are gone you can place something
> like styrofoam under vine either side of stalk so that blossom-stalk
> axis is parallel to ground.
>
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Jim<Jimfire@jps.net> wrote:
> >  I'm at the point where I need to pick one fruit and go with it.
> >
> > One of mine is growing almost upside down, with the blossom on the very
top
> > of the fruit and the vine very low.  Another is more conventional with
the
> > vine lifted a little with the blossom at the 6 o'clock position, near
what
> I
> > call the equator.
> >
> > Does anyone have any feelings about best pumpkin position, with all other
> > things being equal?
> >
> > I obvoiusly don't want to squish the vine, but the way the upside down
> > pumpkin is growing, the vine will be clear and should still stay fairly
> low.
> >
> >
> > Opinions?
> >
> >
> > Jim
> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:33:28 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Steve Minor <minok2014@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Spot on Top of Pumpkin
>
> Just got a reply from a fellow grower here in Vermont with many years of
> experience.  Based on examination of a photo I sent him, the verdict on my
> spot is a scar.  I didn't notice it when the AG was small, but now that
it's
> ballooning, the blemish is very noticeable.  WHEW!!!  Maybe I can breath
now
a
> little bit, eh?
> End of pumpkins DIGEST V1 #70
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