Re: I'm in the game!
- Subject: Re: I'm in the game!
- From: K* R*
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:12:18 -0400
Randy,
What seed does your watermellon shaped fruit come from??? One of our plants
at our second patch has set all it's fruit that way. I have checked the
female flowers on that plant and all the bulbs at the base of the flowers
are long and narrow(like a watermellon) Don't get me wrong now, they are
AG,the plant is undeniably AG,and the color and blossom type are
correct,it's just the fruit SHAPE. Odd,or isn't it?
As the set fruit has grown,it has started to look like a upside down
pear,with an estimated weight of 80lb at 22 days.It's not my only
prospect,but I have enough room to see what happens.
Cyndi in Massachusetts
----- Original Message -----
From: Hughes-Banderob <hughes.banderob@sympatico.ca>
To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 9:16 AM
Subject: I'm in the game!
> For once I'm not here asking for advice or presenting a silly newbie
> question. I'm here to state that I'm finally in the game!
>
> Despite my naivete to AG's (and gardening for that matter)...
>
> despite killing off my first set of plants by burning them under a
> homemade cloche...
>
> despite planting my second set of plants too late...
>
> despite cramming three plants (grown from off-the-shelf seed) into an
> area which could not even properly hold three tomato plants...
>
> despite over-watering my plants to the point where mushrooms were
> growing around the roots...
>
> despite fertilizing my plants using a broken watering can because my
> hose and spayer won't reach...
>
> despite using no insecticide and only squishing cucumber beetles using
> my fingers (and allowing a toad to reside in the patch)...
>
> despite having fruit after fruit abort...
>
> despite all these set backs, I have finally met some success. I have a
> 10 day old fruit which is long and watermelon shaped with a
> circumference of 30" and I have a perfectly round fruit which at 9 days
> has a circumference of 20".
>
> I may not set any records but I'm finally in the game! Thanks for
> everyone's help. Now, where can I rent a forklift? hmmmm...
>
>
> Randy Banderob
> Millbrook, Ontario
>
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