Re: shamrock/dills 715

Scott,  I'm in Norton, MA.  Geographically Norton is between Providence RI
and Boston, MA.  The Gpc weighoff site for me is Topsfield.  The Big E is
the Eastern States Exposition in Springfield, MA.  That weighoff is on
Friday, Sept 25 at 10:30AM.  I certainly will keep you posted on my
weights.  I can send pictures over the web, but this list prefers that I
not.  If you are interested, email me directly with your address and we
won't have to clutter the list with our conversation.  Tim


At 09:27 AM 9/17/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Tim,
>     Mine is pretty pear shaped also.  Actually, it's extremely wide in
>the middle.  It's skin is very wide deeply ribbed, light orange in
>color, and tons (and i mean tons) of cantelouping(where the shoulders
>are it literrally looks, and feels like a canteloupe).  I measured it
>out last night to be over 650 lbs.  i pollinated it july 12, about 15 ft
>on the main vine.  i didn't run into the same problems you did with it
>only wanting to grow plant.  i'm glad to hear however that you were
>right on the money with the charts, even though i wish you were over!!
>I'm hoping that its thick walled.  i have another pumpkin on a different
>plant, and when i tap on it, it sounds hollow, however the 715, when i
>tap in it , it definitaly does not sound hollow!  i hope that means
>thick walls, but i guess the only way i'm really going to find out is at
>the scale.  im having a slight problem with a little rot on my stem.  i
>scraped it, and then applied a fungicide powder, but the stem wasn't
>dry, and the powder did the exact opposite of what i wanted it to do.
>so last night, i scraped off the fungicide, and broke out the hairdryer.
>worked pretty good too.  this morning it was a little moist, but not
>like it was before.  tonight i'm going to purchase a portable fan, and
>set it up to blow on it till it's completely dry.  only 16 days to go,
>i'm not losing this now!  it's still growing, but very slowly, 4 pounds
>yesterday, i guess i have to wait and see what happens.  Definately let
>me know what your weights for this year are!  Where are you
>(geographically), i'm on long island, so i'll be going to the long
>island GPC weighoff in amaggansett.  Where is the big E weighoff?  i
>keep hearing about it.  As a side note, i self pollinated mine this
>year, the plan, if it turns out to be more than the estimated weight, is
>to cross it onto something else, preferribly something over it's
>estimated weight.  keep it growin' till oct 3!!!!
>
>scott
>
>
>
>Scott,  I had replied to you but since it was my first attempt, the
>message
>may have been lost in the ozone. Yes, I planted a Dills 715 last year.
>It
>was a plant that wanted to be a plant for a long time before it would
>flower.  I set a pumpkin on it in early August.  By Labor day it had an
>estimated weight of 125#.  However, by early October, it weighed 598#.
>It
>was harvested around 10/5.  This pumpkin was rather orange with wide
>deep
>ribs.  It was roughly pear-shaped.  It was right on the money for real
>weight vs estimated weight while my other fruits on a different plant
>each
>weighed about 10% light.  I felt that this plant preferred the cooler
>weather, and it obviously came on strong late.  The plant had the
>largest
>leaves that I have ever seen.  I crossed this plant with a JC 697 to try
>to
>get big leaves and better heat tolerance.  I planted a seed from this
>cross
>and have 2 on the hook.  Est weights are 300 and 400 pounds.  I'll let
>you
>know how they weigh if you'ld like.  Will you be at the Big E?    Tim
>
>
>
>
>
>At 09:28 AM 9/15/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>shamrock,
>>     i sent you an email a while ago about dills 715.  i'm not sure it
>>you received it so i'm writing you again.  i remember you said you grew
>>the 715 last year, i was just wondering, were you over/under/right on
>>with the ott charts?  what did your fruit look like.  basically i just
>>want to get an idea what to expect, and i'm also curious as to what
>>yours ended up looking like compared to mine.  thanks
>>
>>scott armstrong
>>long island ny
>>
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