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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
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Iowegian
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Anamosa, IA [email protected]
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I applied fungicides, herbicide and foliar fertilizer last evening, then the sky broke open and dumped 3/4" in just a few minutes. I let Jacob have the night off after his long bus ride and no sleep. Some plants are looking light green from all the rain and weed competition, so they got some more 24-8-16 and molasses foilar applied tonight. Jacob has inherited the foliar feeding job: just a little bit every night to keep the plants going. If it ever dries out we will brew more tea and give them some root drenches to supercharge the soil.
New measurements: 689 McWilliams is 204" ott, 189# at day 22. 21.5 # per day average. Leaves are a little sparse near the first part of the main, but the secondaries have filled out nicely.
655 Lovelace is 187" ott, 149# at day 22. 19# per day average. We removed a 40# from a secondary tonight, one more to remove in a couple of days. This is the best looking plant we have.
910 Young is 153" ott, 86# at day 21. 12.5 # per day average gain. This plant is a little small, but if we get decent weather I expect it to take off quickly.
Jacob has to make some decisions soon on his 547. It has a nice pumpkin on a secondary, and a smaller one on the main. We are not sure which one to go with. The 1275.5 Carlson-Petersen is aonther one with a good pumpkin on a secondary and a small football on the main. The 755 Privitera and 841 McWilliams are smaller plants that have sets on the main. The 1004 Mohr is the craziest looking plant ever. The ribbon main tries to set 2 to 5 pumpkins at every other leaf node. It has the biggest tallest leaves of any plant but only one long secondary. That one has a small open pollination on the secondary and a couple on the main. The rest of the secondaries are very short. Becasue of the bright orange trait, I will let this one go for big jack-o-lanterns.
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