Re: Butterball Blows By Baby Beluga - A Patch Update

bad luck dale - i have not measured mine yet.... but it sounds about the
same size as vinces - with poor UK weather. sowed the seed on 28th
April.....

i'm going to go pace it out right now! and my other babies!

Cliff, why not compost that straw and add to the patch in fall?

Chris




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dale Fisher" <daleefisher@starband.net>
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 4:37 PM
Subject: RE: Butterball Blows By Baby Beluga - A Patch Update


> Geez, pass me the anti depressant...lol.
>
> For real Vince?  If so, I have a ton of things to figure out, because
> our plants are the same age and you are like light years ahead of me.
> My 831 Zunino didn't germinate:(
>
>
> God Bless,
>
> Dale E Fisher
> daleefisher@starband.net
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
> Of vince
> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 6:40 PM
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: Butterball Blows By Baby Beluga - A Patch Update
>
>
> It's 96 degrees in the shade today in sunny California - only
> the second hot day of the season and quite a shock for my two
> pumpkin plants... both of them drooping and obviously
> uncomfortable.
>
> Some of the young leaves are burning - under a heavy shade
> cloth... toasting the warm weather!!!  I used to watch the
> young leaves burn before I used shade cloth.  Now, I watch them
> burn under the shade cloth....
>
> Well, anyway, this way I feel more proactive and the plants
> seem to appreciate my concern. They still burn, however, when
> the weather does a flip flop from cold to real hot - toughens
> their hides and gives them attitude.... I like to think anyway.
>
> Baby Beluga (1230 Daletas) has suffered with all the chilly,
> windy weather.  After starting as a double vine, the plant
> straightened out for a few leaves and then went back to
> double... double trouble.  After a few feet of real ugly
> nonsense it became clear that the main vine was not gonna split
> into two vines or stop this foolishness - so I wacked it off.
>
> Th plant has responded to this abuse by becoming a cantankerous
> cuss  - growing slowly with short stubby vines, vines growing
> straight up and leaves that can't get out of each other's
> way... If my wife was this bitchy, I'd kick her out of bed...
> but with no backup I guess I'm married to this cuss'ed plant.
> I'm tired of all her lip, however, so every other day I wack
> off a secondary or two to keep her in line and show her who's
> boss.
>
> Butterball (831 Zunino) has taken off like a rocket.  After a
> bad buggy start, this plant has literally exploded in my patch
> - growing so fast I see vapor trails ghosting the growing
> tips.... At just under seven weeks this plant has a 17 foot
> main vine and secondaries over 10 feet long. She's now four
> times the size of Baby Beluga... and growing twice as fast.
>
> I've lost count of the female buds - 20 or so and she's just on
> the brink of puberty.  I can see the first female bud forming
> in the growing tip of the main vine - 17 feet out from the
> stump....
>
> This plant has the dragon roots of her mother the 846 Calai.
> 12 feet from the stump, I can't put a spade into the ground
> without  bringing up a tangle of feeder roots.... 12 feet from
> the stump!! - even seems to bother the moles.
>
> Every growing season I get a new surprise in the patch.
> Butterball is so beautiful she has me a bit breathless.... Baby
> Beluga's ugly puss pisses me off just lookin at it.
>
> I've got a picture of both plants at the following link:
>
> http://home.pacbell.net/diana_do/bababoom.htm
>
> vince
> zone 9, the pumpkin zone
>
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