Re: If it's not ashes, it's scratches
- Subject: Re: If it's not ashes, it's scratches
- From: &* m* <f*@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 06:11:27 -0800
- List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/pumpkins/> (Web Archive)
Vince,
you are an angel!
Thanks for the advice,
Kathie
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>From: vince <anaid_tecuod@yahoo.com>
>To: pumpkins@hort.net
>Subject: Re: If it's not ashes, it's scratches
>Date: Tue, Sep 7, 2004, 7:47 PM
>
> 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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