Re: Patch Update - The Lucky Touch of Green

Vince,

You are a great grower, good job.  I really like your chronicles about
pumpkin growing, there funny, amusing and tell the tale of trying to grow
the "big one".

Where are you located at?

Russ - Wisconsin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "vince" <anaid_tecuod@yahoo.com>
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 12:57 PM
Subject: Patch Update - The Lucky Touch of Green


> There's some touches of green in my patch - I think it portends
> luck of a good sort.
>
> I found a spot of green on Lilu, my 1048 Companion, the other
> day.  When I reached down to touch it - it hopped away!  Turned
> out it was a small green frog. I named him Lucky.  He's hanging
> around the stem feasting on the cucumber beetles and doing a
> fine job of keeping them off the pumpkin.  I've had to powder
> my other pumpkins with Sevin to keep the beetles from eating
> grooves into them. But I've kept Lilu clean of insecticides and
> Lucky has kept her spotless.
>
> Lilu grew fast and furious but I slowed her down early to save
> her sorry ass from splitting...  Lilu lost her looks when she
> formed a sag line, and then I saw a potential split coming at a
> deep crevice between a rib and the sag line.  I let another
> pumpkin set on a back vine to draw down the plant and and slow
> down her growth.  When this pumpkin, (Bubbles) started going 20
> pounds a day, sure enough - Lilu slowed down to a crawl.
>
> I know I stunted Lilu, but she's holding together just fine.
> She's taping out now near 950 lbs. and still going.  Check out
> her web cam at:
>
> http://www.zunino.net/diana/chronicles/of_lilu.htm
>
> Bubbles by the way is simply gorgeous.  26 feet out from the
> stump on a tertiary, she's already packin' about 500 pounds,
> has a beautiful shape and is still going 12-15 lbs. a day.
>
> There are a few pumpkins that are pretty, and then there are a
> very few that are absolutely breath taking.  Little David
> (1,230 Daletas) is downright mesmerizing and leaves one
> gasping.  He is now taping heavier than Lilu and looks to weigh
> heavy to boot.  To see a shot of Little David, have an oxygen
> mask handy and click on this link:
>
> http://home.pacbell.net/diana_do/yinyang4.htm
>
> Finally, there's Clifford, and another green story.  Clifford
> is growing on a back tertiary of the 1230 Daletas that I
> separated from the plant so he didn't pull too much juice from
> Little David.  He's been sulking in his corner of the patch,
> growing slowly covered by some old teeshirts and other rags...
> I removed the coverings the other day to find a squarish patch
> of green on his belly.  This was apparently caused by a
> reaction with the fabric covering.
>
> Where he was covered by the cotton tee shirts he still is a
> light cream color.  Where he was exposed to the sun he has
> turned orange.  But contact with some unknown fabric caused a
> green color to emerge.  He kind of looks like a quilt now with
> random cream, orange and green patches.
>
> Clifford is taping out at 350 pounds now and still growing at 5
> pounds a day - hot in pursuit of the stumpless wonder
> record....
>
> Best of luck to all at the weigh-offs....
>
> vince
>
>
>
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