Re:
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re:
- From: b*@pacific.pacific.net (brocfarm)
- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 10:59:24 -0800
>Thanks for the advise...I may try the tiny knotch idea in the
>main vine, and the captan, which is legal in this state. I
>haven't watered it for a week (we have gotten some rain).
>Unfortunately, Wyoming doesn't have an official pumpkin weigh
>site, but I plan to leave the pumpkin on the vine until the
>weather looks bad. We take it to a local feed store that has
>an accurate scale and weigh them there. Deer have starting
>migrating down and found a periphery pumpkin to gnaw on
>(about a 225 pound pumpkin there!). As long as they keep
>interested in that one, I'll sacrifice it for the 'big' one.
>thanks again, Janette
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Janette,
Like George said that if it really looks like it will open up then put on
some tangle foot or grafting wax.....or silicon.....if you catch it right
when it opens and keep the air out it will still grow a little.......aren't
you folks starting to really cool down there in Wyoming...........Hek make
sure you have some witnesses when you weigh it might be a state
record.........good luck...brock
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