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Re: A pooped Oregon Update

At 02:17 07/07/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Greeting all,
>Well the weather is back to summer here and the patch took off.  Over the 4th
>I spent over 30 hours working in the garden most of which was of course done
>in the pumpkins.  I had my first real duel with cuke beetles over the past
>few days and seemed to have come out on top.  I had been distracting the bugs
>with sugar water on my sunflowers, but now with all the pumpkin blossoms,
>they couldn't resist the patch.  Pumpkin setting is going well, with well
>over 20 pumpkins growing amongst my 4 plants.  I will let every one grow
>until they reach the pinacle 14 day stage and then remove all slow ones, and
>thin from there.  The other veggies are doing great, and it looks like I will
>be ready for all the major veggie classes come weigh off time.  And now for
>the moment we have all been waiting for (ya right)  the plant rundown.....
>
>Site #1  The transplanted #627.5 Hester.... This baby is going and growing
>very well.  The babies are still too immature to measure with not a one
>pumpkin hitting 14 days old until the 16th.  I did do a little investigating
>as to why the two 627s are doing so well, and found that at each leaf axis
>where normally there is one root on the bottom and one (normally dormant) on
>the top, there is two both on top and on bottom, 4 roots at each junction,
>this has been my only explaination as to their size and growing ability.  The
>plant is roughly 30 X 30 and eagerly filling its allotted area.  It and the
>other three plants really loved their latest dose of the good stuff.
> 
>Site #2  The #827 Holland.....  This plant is acting like a wimp in every way
>except its fruit.  I have many fruit set on this plant, all are growing well,
>and there is no foliage to speak of.  The leaves are small in comparison to
>my others, the vines small, but you can't help but notice the pumpkins
>getting bigger.  "Arnold"  The first pumpkin set in the patch, reached 20
>days from a blossom today and is approaching 40" in Circ.  For me, that is
>near personal best, I will tell tomorrow if it does break my PR for 21 days.
>
>Site #3  The Adventures of The #850.5 Larue......  Okay, the plant is kickin
>butt now and the young fruits are very long and a green yellow color, and has
>they mature are turning yellow/ Orange.  The plant itself is still weird
>though with leaf stalks shooting up some 3-4 feet in the air with some coming
>up to my armpits, and runners standing up 3 feet tall as they grow.  I can't
>wait until I start getting some early measurements from the baby pumpkins on
>it.
> 
>Site #4  The big #627.5 Hester.....  Where to start?  My first pumkin on this
>plant reached 14 days today.  It is on a dinky secondary off the second main
>vine and measured 27.5 inches in circ.  I pollinized a pumpkin on the second
>main vine 8 days ago, and it is well ahead of that other ones pace, and to
>top it all off, I finally got a baby set on the monster main vine three days
>ago, and that one is nearly as big as the 8 day old.  The plant has filled
>the 40X 30 area completely now with every vine buried to within safe distance
>from the stems, and I am now moving dirt in from other areas to bury the rest
>of the vines outside the growing area.
>Some one asked if there were any records out there yet, well if my plant
>stays healthy and the pumpkins don't explode, I am going to make the bold
>statement and say that my personal record of 676 pounds is going down, hard!
> Who knows, I may even give old Kirk Mombert a run this year for Oregons
>best, although rumor has it, he is doing great too.
>  Take care all,   Updates will be on pumpkin size from here on, Hope to hear
>how everyone else is doing?  Al (Eaton) if you read this, how big was your
>941 at 14, 21, and 30 days?  Also, does anyone have growth tables for other
>biggies?
>         Brett   The Pumpkinguru  
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Hello Brett H.--Sounds like a promising start you have there,terrific report.

Dug into my 941 records for you,it will be quite awhile before I need to do
it for myself.

The 941 was pollinated July 7------at 14 days----41 inches circum.
                                   at 30 days---105 inches circum.

After 30 days I switch to Over-The-Top numbers,more meaningful for weight
estimate.
                                                                            
    Al Eaton
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