Re: 2 months wiped out in 5 minutes
- Subject: Re: 2 months wiped out in 5 minutes
- From: T* P* M*
- Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 09:12:29 PDT
Don't give up. Spay some fungicide and do what you can with the plants.
They will start sending out new secondaries and growth will come back. It
may not be your best season but you can keep going. It happened to me in
the beggining but I have recovered decently. Don't give up!!!!!!!
>From: Jpukos@aol.com
>Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>To: Pumpkins@mallorn.com
>Subject: 2 months wiped out in 5 minutes
>Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 08:52:43 EDT
>
>We had a severe thunderstorm rip through our area yesterday. My 4 plants,
>which I have been babying for 2 months, received catastrophic damage. Golf
>ball size hail and winds in excess of 80 MPH do not mix well with mature
>pumpkin plants or even houses and trees for that matter. I had up a
>plastic
>fence as a wind protector, that ended up a couple of lots over from my
>property. Most of the mains are still rooted, but 95% of the leaves are
>broken and on the ground. I'm not sure how the plants, which were about 35
>feet in diameter, will react. It looks like disease heaven to me. All and
>all not a very good day, but thank God no one was hurt.
>Joe Pukos
>Leicester, NY (no longer known as Pleasant Valley)
>
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