Re: reconstructing a pumpkin.
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: reconstructing a pumpkin.
- From: S*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:30:45 EST
In a message dated 98-11-16 11:46:13 EST, you write:
> Steve,
>
> You're trying really hard to make this vicious and mean act go away. Once
> the
> pumpkin is broken up like that. . . wait a minute. I was gonna try to get
> you
> to understand that it was time to let go. It probably is, but what would a
> plastic surgeon do, if a terrible accident happened? Reconstruct!
Exactly, it would be stupid not to at least try. "If it can be fixed, fix it.
If it can't be, at least try"!
>
> The thing is, time is against you. And there is not going to be any
> regenerative tissues. The pumpkin is already breaking down, more and more
> everyday. Infection is bound to set in. It doesn't look good.
>
Nah, it is outdoors in 40-45 degrees, and lower at night. With fungicide or
sulpher application, it should last at least a couple of weeks. I would be
able to have it to put out in front of our house, at least until Thanksgiving
or so.
> Maybe you could use thin straight wire as "dowels". The sticky molasses
> mixed
> with an antibacterial agent might help. If the pieces are large enough,
> they
> might take to the dowels and hold on. If some are very small, this is the
> hardest part.
>
Most of the pieces are pretty big, the biggest are around 50-60 pounds each.
> There could be so much necrotic tissue in the small pieces that saving them
> becomes impossible. You will have to find a donor pumpkin (I am SERIOUS)
> and
> take proportional pieces from it. use wood or very fine metal to attach.
>
> Do use a filler material as an armature for the pumpkin. This will give it
> strength, or the whole thing will probably collapse. Stuff it on the heavy
> side, so that if the pumpkin has a tendency to collapase, it will rest on
> the
> filling.
>
> Make sure to do the reconstruction where the pumpkin is going to stay as
> moving it will probably prove fatal.
>
> Good luck, Steve!
>
> Judy
> Jalust@aol.com
Hmm, good point! But instead of molases, which will probably attract ants or
something, wouldn't tanglefoot be stickier? The molasses we have is more like
just a thick syrup, not really sticky enough to actually hold anything
together, I don't think.
I don't know. I know honey has antibacterial and antifungal properties, (they
used to use it to help preserve mummies, and honey has actually been found in
containers from 5000 years ago, and it was still edible)! Of course it would
take a lot of honey, (or molasses for that matter). Oh well, I'll figure
something out based on all the advice from you guys, etc.
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