Re: cryonics and mutants
Glen,
I thought you reported pulling the Burke1092?
Greg Schraiber
Machesney Park, IL
(Wherever the heck that is)
Glenn Peters wrote:
>
> 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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