Oregon Update
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Oregon Update
- From: O*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:57:41 EDT
Greetings,
Yep here I am again and all is not well. I am getting nervous and scared. I
sweat at night and have nightmares that my patch disappears and "SCAR" is
gone. But when I awoke this morning, I saw this....
Site #1 #875 lloyd is a sterile. It will not keep fruit on it for more than
a week before they die off. Darn it!!!
Site #2 #697 Ciliberto has its first baby turning 14 tomorrow, and should be
on pace to keep. Plant is still a moose. #615 Wilson is doing okay now,
still has only a 10 day old on the vine.
Site #3 #825 Shymanski is having main stem problems with a bug that made its
way into a crack and ate out the inside of the stump. I unburied the main
stem entirely and thouroughly (sp?) rinsed it out with bug, and funguside, and
bacteriacide. I even cut off the back main runner, severed it from the
problem. We shall see what happens.
Site #4 #827 Holland is doing it again. Dinky plant large pumpkin looks
really good.
Site #5 #567.5 Mombert has 2 nice fruit and one ugly ass thing with a baboon
butt on it. Its getting big though.
Site #6 #469 Hester is having trouble setting fruit as well. I keep removing
the 4 lobers and dont have much left. 2 prospects do still have a place
though. #627.5 Hester has "Gillian" and "Scar" I don't want to give out any
numbers to keep things sort of a secret, but lets just say that at the young
age going from 20 to 21 days it put on measurement wise 18 pounds. If I could
average that growth every day until the weigh off something special may
happen. I would fall short of the 1500 pound mark by about 100 pounds, but it
would be interesting. Now tomorrow it will blow up knowing my luck.
Notes to self for the week, used waxed plastic gunny bags for under the
pumpkins for them to slide on trying avoid the tuck me under problem. New
fertilizer combo is working well. removal of all unnecessary growth is
proving very beneficial. the 90 degree theory to plant archetecture works
very well. deep burying of vines very very beneficial. Sifted cow poop very
beneficial over composed manure. partial shade produces larger leaves, then
remove patial shade slowly = more leaf surface area. Magnesium is key (thanks
Janet and Clyde). Soil compaction isn't so bad after all, watch the roots.
leave on those sun burnt leaves, cuke beetles will go to them first over
healthy leaves. Vitamin E lotion on scratches increases softness of shell
wall in scar areas. Use white for shade structures, keeps pumpkin cooler, but
keep that pumpkin warm even into fall. Do not more the pumpkin, move the
vine!!!!!!! Sorry "kathy" RIP. Do not use machete to weed with.
Take care all,
Brett The Pumpkinguru Hester
PS even after the 600 + pounders of years past, those quick growing babies
still as impressive.
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