Despite my promise to self not to do any more special stuff for new set-ons, I just pollinated my lovely 900 Langevin with a 940.5 Bhaskaran. It's the second female on the 900, and set just right. All my pumpkins are open pollinated, but I encourage pollination by adding manual pollination to the open flowers. It's the best I can do my first year. THis is the plant that only started to grow about 3 weeks ago, after a couple shots of tea. Plant is a perfect Christmas tree shape, I'll give her a try.
Everything is sprayed with Malathion, will get more triazicide today. Take that, you dirty grasshoppers. Actually, I'd have let the female on that 900 go totally open, but for the fact that I probably just killed all the bees, gnats, flies, butterflies, squash beetles, ants, etc., for 40 miles. Hope I got the chiggers while I was at it!
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