My next question
I KNOW there are two different birthdays for AGS:
how old is the plant (date since planting)
&
how old is the fruit (date since pollinating).
What I don't know:
Is the date of PLANTING counted from the day it goes into the pot
or the day it goes into the ground?
Thanks!
Kathie in Santa Rosa
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>From: "kathie morgan" <fishrap@earthlink.net>
>To: Hort Pumpkins <pumpkins@hort.net>
>Subject: precocious AG
>Date: Tue, Jun 29, 2004, 11:33 AM
>
> Help!
> My 991 Hunt germinated seriously deformed, trying to hide its deformity by
> shoving its twisted, wrinkled dicots down under the soil in the pot. So, OK,
> I didn't plant it right away. Eventually I put it into the loamiest part of
> the patch, where we had planned to plant carrots.
> One dicot died, replaced by a leaf. Then went the 2nd dicot.
> Today the 991 began turning over a new leaf, its second. Also, its first
> male blossom opened today, on a vine less than one inch long.
> You guessed my question:
>
> Is there any sense in allowing the wee chap to mate with my healthy ladies?
> He carries the genes that grew a 991-pound pumpkin.
>
> Kathie in Santa Rosa
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