Re: AG Pumpkin Update from Minnesota
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- Subject: Re: AG Pumpkin Update from Minnesota
- From: "* K* <j*@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 20:36:42 PDT
george,
where do you find the time to take care of 13 plants?
i can hardly keep up with two.
lost two rows of corn and two trees on saturday.
i don't know what happened as i was in duluth to
see my 56 year old nutty father run the grandmas marathon.
thank god my two pumpkins survived. must be the seeds(815&977andersen)
thanks again chris!! good luck.
Jim
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>From: George Heyne <gheyne@midas.millcomm.com>
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>Subject: AG Pumpkin Update from Minnesota
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>The last two weeks have been great for growing AG pumpkins in
southeastern
>Minnesota. The temperatures have been in the 70s and 80s and we have
been
>fortunate to receive about the correct amount of rainfall. The wind has
>been strong at times, but the hoops I placed over the vines held them
in
>place; thus, no vine splitting or torn up plants.
>
>The AG pumpkins provided me with a great Father's Day gift as six of my
13
>plants showed female blossoms. Today (two days later), eight of the
plants
>have female blossoms and the two 858 Baird plants have two. If these
first
>female blossoms do not die (many usually do), I should be able to start
>pollinating around the first of July. It was interesting to note that
the
>first five AG plants to set female blossom germinated first. There was
not
>much difference in the germinating time of the 13 pumpkins. The two 858
>Baird and the 696 Klema germinated first.
>
>Plant information:
>
>1) 858 Baird - Vine = 10 feet, leaf = 21.5 inches, very vigorous - has
> averaged 7.5 inches of growth per day over the last eight days. Has
two
> female blossoms. Grows low to the ground (Same for the other Baird)
>2) 696 Klema - Vine = 9.3 feet, leaf = 21 inches, has been my most
> vigorous until passed by the 858 Baird. One female blossom, nice
plant
> and thick vine,
>3) 858 Baird - Vine = 9.7 feet, leaf = 19.5 inches, very vigorous of
late,
> has two female blossoms.
>4) 452 Heyne - Vine = 8.5 feet, one female blossom
>5) 500 Noffke (seed from Alice) - Vine = almost 9 feet, nice plant, one
> female blossom
>6) 460 Heyne - Vine = 8 feet
>7) 520 Heyne - Vine = 8.3 feet, one female blossom
>8) 739 Eaton - Vine = Almost 7 feet, Started slow but now starting to
> grow, had bad stem split coming out of the ground.
>9) 520 Heyne - Vine = Just over 5 feet
>10) 496 Heyne - Vine = 6.8 feet, has female blossom
>11) 550 Noffke (seed from John) - Vine = 6.5 feet
>12) 496 Heyne - Still growing after complete stem breakage (rot or
> whatever), vine = 6.5 feet, one female blossom
>13) 935 Lloyd - Vine 6.1 feet, a real slow grower
>
>That is it from southeastern Minnesota. Will let you know when I
pollinate
>my first female.
>
>George Heyne
>Rochester, Mn
>
>
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