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Re: Skin Damage!

Chris,

You won't believe this, but a few days before my very first female was to
open, I decided to measure the distance it was from the base of the
plant....with a metal tape measure.  A couple of days later,  I noticed a
nice clean slice had been cut off one edge.  About 10% had been cut off.
We pollenated it anyway, but it failed so I don't know how it would have grown.

Kurt Frederick
Edmonton, Alberta

At 09:30 AM 7/17/97 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Hi Everyone,
>
>Yes, I am still kicking myself for this one. I was moving the main vine on
>my Greer 1006 today. I had pollinated the fruit yesterday with Al Eatons
>941. During my moving of the main vine I did not see my plastic marker tag
>and the edge of the tiny fruit was slightly cut by the edge of the marker.
>Enough so that it oozed water briefly. I know this will leave a terrible
>scar as the pumpkin grows, can anyone advise me if this type of damage at
>such a early immature stage well weaken the structure of the fruit or
>inhibit growth in any manner?
>
>Thanks!
>Chris Andersen
>Moraga, Calif.
>
>
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