Re: If it's not ashes, it's scratches
- Subject: Re: If it's not ashes, it's scratches
- From: v* <a*@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 20:47:29 -0700 (PDT)
- List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/pumpkins/> (Web Archive)
Hmmm, rubbing the juice of a rotting pumpkin into scratches on
a sound pumpkin. That sounds like adding insult to injury to
me. The juice from the soft pumpkin is probably loaded with
bacteria... and you've just planted them in a new host....
I would rub the scraches down well with a 10% solution of
bleach as soon as possible and blow dry the area with a hair
dryer. If you have Capton power - use it and and keep the area
dry overnight.
Tomorrow, let it get a good dose of direct sun to dry and
sterilize it.... Shallow scratches will heal well if they are
kept dry and clean while they heal.
Good luck,
vince
--- kathie morgan <fishrap@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I took the advice of you guys and washed my leaves down with
> water.
> And today ...
> Landlord's 25-30 pound cat Punkie jumped up into the
> 'foxhole' atop my 1385
> fruit and began scratching his name in its tender skin.
>
> I remembered reading about healing such cuts with 'juice'
> extracted from
> another pumpkin. I had just removed a small fruit from the
> 1097.
> BUT ...
> It had already gotten a wee bit soggy. I cut it in half and
> used it anyway.
> Should I have used a sound cull instead, or does it matter?
> Kathie
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