Re: shriveled leaves
- Subject: Re: shriveled leaves
- From: J* L* J*
- Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 22:51:09 EDT
By this time of the year, I take the old dry leaves in my hand and
crumble them, leaving the stalk standing. I let another vine grow into
that area so the sq footage of sunlight intake is maximized.
Jon
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On Sat, 31 Jul 1999 22:28:48 EDT GBPUMPKIN@aol.com writes:
>In a message dated 7/31/99 9:36:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>eliav@tdstelme.net writes:
>
><< Subj: shriveled leaves
> Date: 7/31/99 9:36:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time
> From: eliav@tdstelme.net (eli a vega)
> Sender: owner-pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Reply-to: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>
> can anybody advise me? The leaves around the base of my plant are all
> shriveled up fo a distance from the center about 2.5-3.0 feet, now I
> recently learned from this website that these plants have to have a
> tremendous amount of water so I started watering heavy about 2 weeks
> ago, my pumpkin itself is thriving (from the size of a baseball on
> July 15th, to approx. 58 inches around now) and the shriveling has
>not
> gotten any worse since I started watering heavy, can I asume this
> occured because I the plant did not have enough water? any help is
> certainly appreciated >>
>
>The older leaves will often give up this time of year. Wind and sun
>damage
>is usually the cause, they just wear out, it's normal.
>
>George
>
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