Re: Measurement problem
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Measurement problem
- From: T* H* <t*@columbia.edu>
- Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 10:10:47 -0700
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rocky.r wrote:
>
> John Heilman wrote:
> >
> > Regarding Rocky's referral to mallorn.com/people/lindsay/duncan.cgi.
> >
> > I tried it and found that my 40 in. OTT pumpkin weighs 2
> > pounds.Yesterday it was filled with lead, today with helium?
> >
> > Is this a plot to keep California growers confused until we simply drink
> > our chardonnay (Napa Valley) in the cool of the evening as we watch the
> > vines wander gently up and over the eves of the hacienda?
> > John
> > --
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> > For I mean to go in harm's way
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> John,
> I do not understand what is so difficult about that program.. Is your
> pumpkin 40 inches OTT, or is that 40 inches in circumfrence, (which is
> just around the stem to the blossom end with out touching the ground?)
> If 40 inches is your circumfrence, yuo have an approximate 30 pound
> pumpkin.. I say approximate, because the new chart in the How To Grow
> World Class Giant Pumpkins II starts at 50 inches for circumfrence.. Now
> if your pumpkin is going at 40 inches in OTT, (which is no where near a
> basketball), it only wieghs 2 pounds..The heavy hitters in here know,
> and most willagree, that this program works, right down to the penny..
> It is simply the chart from the book , in a program format.. Good Luck..
> Oh by the way, my squash from the Andersen 815 Pumpkin, is now at
> 69/49/46... for an OTT of 164 inches.. The circumfrence chart has it at
> 97 pounds, and the OTT chart has it at 108.5 pounds.. The computer
> program has it at 103.12 pounds.. I have to say, for an estimating chart
> to be so off, all my measurements are coming out pretty close..
> --
> Lyle "Rocky" Rockwell
>
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Where can i find the measurement chart.... i went to the web address
but got message page/address out of date..
help
th
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