Re: Hera's Hurting
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From: "Diana Doucet" <diana_doucet@yahoo.com>
To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 12:47 PM
Subject: Hera's Hurting
> Checking Hera's stem this morning, I was horrified to
> find that she was tearing away from her physical bonds
> to the earth. The top of the stem has a two inch
> ragged tear that has been oozing. The flesh around
> the tear was brown and soft. I think she thought she
> could fly.
>
> She has grown so much that she pulled the vine up
> tight and was tearing away. I relieved the stem
> stress and when I was treating the torn area with
> Capton I found a split under the stem. The split is
> about three inches long and starts in the base of the
> stem and carries into the body. This split appears to
> be entirely the result of the stem stress. A stupid
> rookie mistake.
>
> Probing the split, I found that it goes about two to
> three inches deep and seems dry and still solid. I
> coated the inside of the split with Capton with a
> artist's brush. Hera watch me mournfully. I don't
> know what else to do.
>
> Hera has come face to face with her own mortality.
> She now can see her future - a huge pile of watery
> glop. She looks rather pathetic, hunched down in the
> patch, as she contemplates the uncertainty of her
> existence.
>
> A harsh, cold reality for a proud pumpkin deity to
> fully comprehend.
>
> Anybody have any other suggestion of what I can do
> treat the split?
>
> diana
>
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> __Diana
Jim Kuhn has one with about the same size split as Hera. He used
captan and also put a fan blowing on it 24-7 in an attemp to keep it dry, it
seems to have worked he is going to bring it to topsfield on sept. 30
Good luck Diana
Ill say a prayer to the Gods
Joe H._______________________________________________
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