Re: Al Eaton (watering)
- Subject: Re: Al Eaton (watering)
- From: T* P* M*
- Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 13:22:14 PDT
so, what do pumpkins do in responce to cold water. Most of the water I use
is from the hose and relatively cold. Also, if I water the main root of a
10 by 10 area, would that mean I have 100 square feet to recieve about 100
gallons per week?
>From: SteveS012@aol.com
>Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>Subject: Re: Al Eaton (watering)
>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 15:59:17 EDT
>
>In a message dated 7/17/99 11:26:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>thepumpkinmaster@hotmail.com writes:
>
> > now is this for just the root area or for the enire area that the plant
> > takes us. So would I take the square footage of my plant and apply
>that
> > much to the main root or just the square footage of the root area and
>add
> > water. Or should I water all around the plant even where there are no
> > roots. I am very confused?!?!?!?!?!?
> >
>
>O.K., well of course where there are no roots, watering would be moot, and
>a
>waste of water. So this would be over the entire main root area, (usually
>about 10 x 10 feet or so), and you SHOULD have your vines buried so they
>form
>taproots, so then you would water the area that the vines with the taproots
>cover. Same goes for fertilizing, etc. If you really need to conserve
>water,
>you can hand water or use a soaker hose along the vines with taproots, so
>the
>area 5 feet wide or so gets soaked with an inch or more of water a week.
>Also, I usaually use temperature controlled spring water from a well. Hot
>tap
>water is added to the cold well water until it is lukewarm. Pumpkins are
>really sensitive to cold water! I set up an extensive technological system
>last year, and hopefully I'll get access to it up on a web page this year
>for
>everyone to see. I even incorporate the use of Doppler Radar to track
>storms
>in the immediate pumpkin growing area. Also there are probes for soil temp,
>and other instruments for wind, humididy, temperature, percipitation, etc.
>I
>wanted to set up a live Pumpkin Cam to everyone could watch the progress of
>my pumpkins, but I don't know if I can do that. It would reauire another
>on-site laptop to transmit the data back to here and over the internet,
>which
>we don't have right now.
>
>
>
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