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Saturday, July 11, 2009
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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today the 1161 last chance on the main was culled. at 17" on day 10, i got down and took a close look to see if i would still go with it and put mill fabric under it. that is when i noticed 2 stem splits underneath going into the pumpkin. i am glad that i decided 3 days ago to pollinate a secondary kin. this is at 3 days and looks better than the culled one on the main at the same age. after culling the main 17", i decided to throw the mill fabric under this as a sign of hope that it will take. it was self pollinated and a nice 5 lober. good thing i put fabric under it today, cuz while doing so i noticed some fuzz developing on the blossum and removed the goo, treated with captan, and got a fan on it. i got a backup open pollinated 1161 at about 4 days and removed all other open secondary set pumpkins to give the juice to the 2 remaining ones. i decdided that with this much plant, and a nice strong secondary vine that is cut off after the pumpkin at 7' out from the main, then what the hell, that 7' is just like one long stem from the main with leaves on it too. lol. wishful thinking, but i have never grown a pumpkin directly off a secondary. i have let the plant turn into halloweenines if i didn't get one on the main. if neither of these 2 remaining sets take, it will be late in the game after this and the plant will be a halloweeny plant. so with 2 last chances on the secondaries, it would be fitting to call this little one "the duece". if it grows big and makes it to the weigh off, we will be careful not to drop "the duece".
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