Direct Start Update: 6/29/97

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• Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 20:53:14 -0400 (EDT)

Direct Start Update: 6/29/97

Planted Monday evening 4/14/97.

5 Days with 90 or above already has made pollination a challenge.  We have
had more days 90 or above than all last summer, which was cool, already.
 Hard to believe after a cold spring.  Very little rain for the past month
except for heavy T’stm’s on the 16th & 17th.

Planted in heated Direct Start Mounds, covered at night with a blanket.  (See
article on Dan’s Pumpkin Page for details.)  All mounds have had their window
top removed a window wall erected around them with a partial top.

Mound #1

AG-553-92-GB (8 frozen seeds) Child of Ray Waterman’s 780.5 Parent of my 93
641 and a 93 630 in NH.

Update 6/29/97: Vine length 16’ 10" All female flowers so far have shriveled
up before maturing, I’ll give it till 7/19/97 to produce or it comes out.

Mound #2

Primary: AG-717-91-MM (2 Frozen Seeds) Mike MacDonald parent of many 700+.

Update 6/29/97: Vine length 19’ 10" . 
1st Bloom 6/17 @ 6’ failed temp 53/81
2nd  Bloom 6/22 @ 8’ 2" failed temp 69/91
3rd Bloom 6/23 @ 9’ 4" set temp 56/82
4th Bloom 6/26 @ 13’ 9" set temp 69/86
5th Bloom 6/29 @ 16’ 1" ? temp 55/90

Mound #3

Primary: AG-798-95-PNZ (2 Seeds) Zehr related to their World Record

Update 6/29/97: Vine length 23’ 7" . 
1st Bloom 6/23 @ 8’ 11" set temp 56/82
2nd  Bloom 6/25 @ 14’ 7" set temp 55/88
3rd Bloom 6/29 @ 18’ 1" ? temp 55/90

George Brooks
N. Tewksbury, MA USA

Approximately 25 miles Northwest of Boston in the Merrimack River Valley.

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