Re: Update from Pennsylvania .........

I culled down to the one and only last year on August 10th, when the second one
was at 255 pounds.. That was a very tough decision.. Your numbers are super,
after 18 days on my Andersen 815 last season, I was at the 136 mark, so u are
ahead of me a bit! But I will confess this, On July 21st (my 18 day mark last
season), she was 136" OTT, but one week later on July 28th, Dark Horse had
measurements of 84 - 53 - 58 - 195..........  100 pounds in 7 days... of course,
August was even better than that!! Good Luck. you will have so much fun this
year with it, I just can give you piece of advice.. dont overfertilize!!
Especially mid to late August.. You will want to push it, but if you do,, u may
end up like me! Mowin the lawn on October 2nd ( last year, not this year)...

Glenn Needham wrote:

> Rocky - I am not near those kind of numbers either but I do think I have a
> few going good considering the drought we had been having also.
> This had been one of the driest spring -early summers that a lot of the old
> farmers can remember. About 3 light rainfalls of .25 inches or less since
> the snow melted. But then in the last 2 weeks have been getting nice supply
> of rain. Got 1.6 inches Friday night Sat. morning then another .6 last night
> and had rained every third day for a week before that. So know I need the
> rubber boots on around the plants now!!
> It's like we are getting the April showers that were non existent in April
> now.
>
> Anways my report from Arnprior, nothing spectacular but some solid pound
> gainers.
>
> June 30 Baird 659 at 174 ott this morning.
> July 7 Kennedy 625 at 136.25 this morning.
>
> And yes Wayne the 625 after a slow start is really coming on lately, more
> than doubled in weight in the last 2 nights - went from 29 to 61 lbs in the
> last 2 days.
>
> And Rocky - A Darkhorse twin - A July 7 Anderson 815 (green as grass) at 145
> ott this morning.
> So far this squash is the biggest per day of age one I got, there is 2 of
> them both 5 seg blooms both pollinated the same morning, both side by side
> on secondaries - were identical in size every day up till the last few and
> now the one with a couple scars on it is growing quite a bit faster than the
> cosmetically perfect one! Oh well - guess it does not matter what they look
> like right?
> Rocky at what point did you cull down to only one last year? You did cull
> down to one right?
>
> Glenn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lyle Rockwell <rocky.r@cyber-quest.com>
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
> Date: Sunday, July 25, 1999 1:38 PM
> Subject: Update from Pennsylvania .........
>
> >Pumpkineers,
> >    WHile I do not have the numbers Gary Burke and Wayne Kennedy have, I
> >am nearing the 200 inch mark for OTT. In our area, we have been hurt bad
> >by severe hot weather and no rain, so bad in fact, we have a declared
> >drought emergency for 55 counties in the great state of Pennsylvania. In
> >an effort to go along with the local and state officials, I have
> >purchased two rain barrels to attempt to catch the next rainfall, and
> >save on the city water. As for now, check out the update page, which is
> >now located on top of my frames based main page. I did borrow the AG
> >border from one of the lovely Atlantic Giant pages I have visited , but
> >can not recall whose page it was. I have also started a links page, so
> >please if you want your link added to my page, email me personally, and
> >I would love to add your page.
> >
> >--
> >***Rocky Rockwell***
> >
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> >
> >"Woodchuck - The Other White Meat"
> >
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