addendum to the last post
OHyes, Mark can be quoted as saying.. If someone told me I had to stop
fertilizing in order to keep the pumpkin fresh and viable for a contest,
and be happy with a 400 pound pumpkin and not go for the 7-800 pounders
or large, I would plant grass in that spot tomorrow and enver do this
again.. What a funny guy.. lol..
My response is kinda like this, itis like a golf club these seeds.
If you have a 7 iron, you dont try to hit the ball more than 150 yards
or so, because if you overswing the club, you willl have miss hits, you
will skull it, and all sorts of other bad results. Kinda like AG plants,
if you push too hard, you will have problems, because the plants, while
they are amazing at what they can do at this point, do have limitations,
much like a well struck 7 iron or a over swung 7 iron that is missed.
It is a very fine line between over and underfertizing, and that I
do believe is where guys like Gary Burke, Lincoln Mettler, Paul Handy,
and Len Stellpflug have done well with thier pumpkins, they rode that
fine line and made it. Apocolypse Now quote... " I was dreaming I was a
snail, crawling across the edge of a razor blade......... and made
it"....
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***Rocky Rockwell***
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"Woodchuck - The Other White Meat"
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