Re: shading the fruit
In a message dated 5/17/2000 12:52:51 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
gpeters@ll.mit.edu writes:
<< Marc: The general thinking behind shading is that the sun hardens the skin
of the pumpkin making it more prone to cracking as it expands. >>
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And it heats up the fruit quite a bit creating an early maturation...instead
of growing 80 days...it only grows for 60.................Glenn A.
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