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Sunday, August 09, 2009
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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you tell me how to measure "the duece". if i take the circumference at right under the stem and go horizontal with the ground to the nose end of the blossum, that is the widest point. it seems like cheating and i should go stem to blossum on an angle lining up and taking the circumference tilted. it matters about 3" circumference but the side to side and stem to blossum are the same. in theory, if i took the circumference with the tilt aspect, then my side to side and stem to blossum measurements would be taken with an invisable angled plane to to the side to side and stem to blossums. i know a bird bath pumpkin is measured circumference around parellel to the ground, so i will go with option one, partellel to the ground as the blossum end will eventually hit the ground anyways and option 2 measurements wouldn't work anymore. i gave the pumpkin a slight tilt when the inverted blossum started deepening to keep it from becoming a place for water to sit in. now it is on full tilt so to speak in the poker vernacular. i am thinking it might be the best thing for this baby. the small bes splits are totally healled and no more signs of trouble yet. YET. the splits ran concentric for a half inch early on which is a much better chance then splits going up and down pointed at the nub. but still, theis innie is silly. so if "the duece" keeps dropping its weird ass downward, eventually it will touch down and have support evenly across its bum. the stress will be dispersed upward as opposed to outward and the downward pressure from the weight above the blossum will eventully thicken up the blossum end in general as it gradually supports more and more weight. either that or it splits. theories....jeez. who is this shaz idiot anyways? "the duece" is 122-73-71 or 266 ott and estimated at 403 lbs on the 1161 secondary vine set.
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