cryonics and mutants
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: cryonics and mutants
- From: G* P*
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:18:38 -0400
While not being blessed with a ribbon style Burke 1092 vine , my Burke
1092 does display some mutations such as a siamese female flowers,
triple male flowers and as of yesterday a never heard before? female
flower on a tendril! no not next to it but growing right out of a
tendril!!! (got a pict of this one)
After a weekend of 90 plus temps. i set four pumpkins yesterday morn.
three had opened up over the weekend while i was away on vacation, even
if the bees did their job i'm sure the 90 plus temps will prevent them
from developing!?
I had four more ready to open up monday morning so i thought i'd try to
chill things out a little --- i bought two bags of ice and monday
morning i pollinated the four pumpkins two on the Burke 1092 and two on
the Stellpflug 1056.5 (should have bought four bags) anyway i put on bag
under each Stellpflug pumpkin(careful not to let it touch them)and then
covered them with aliminium foil (the ice and pumpkis)then covered them
all with about 8 inches of straw--- when i got home from work that
evening i checked them and there was still ice in the bags despite a day
in the mid-nineties. a check of the temps in the straw mounds was 68
degrees --outside temp at 6:00pm was 88 degrees--
i'll let you all know if there was any advantage to the to cryonic
pumpkins on the Stellplug vs the non ice babies on the Burke.
Glenn Peters
PS What was that wet stuff falling from the sky last nite???
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