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Saturday, May 16, 2009
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Honesdale, Pennsylvania
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We all know that the longer you grow these giant pumpkins the more likely you are to encounter its difficulties. Trouble has struck again in my main patch. I lost the 1385 Jutras to a white maggot of somekind now my second choice in my best patch has gone down too. This type of disaster is a first for me. After a long winter of narrowing down the seed selections number 2 on my all star lineup was the 1566 Radonis. It was doing great with more than 3 true leaves and a stocky stem. I first noticed it doing the "Rocky Shrivel" yesterday and today it looked horrible. I scraped the soil away from the stem and discovered its mushy texture. I yanked it out and found that nearly all of the roots had been eaten and the stem was loaded with a couple dozen of the corn Sayre Maggots. That Rocky does not know when to stop. I had put my 834 and 826 in as backups but I am fearful that they too are going to be eaten as they are less than a foot from the original plants and I did not add any protection to the soil. It does not look good. In the photo it is hard to see the clump of the tiny terrorists at the top of the stem.
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