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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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Day 15: Outgrew the 60" tape today! OkieGal was right--what a milestone! I didn't think it would ever outgrow a 60" tape. 37-39-60 this morning. That's 136 OTT for 60#; or 73# CC measurement estimate.
My pumpkin is becoming rather pear shaped, heavy on the blossom end. I wonder if this is good, bad, or indifferent and if it's just the way it is or is something I'd doing.
One small pumpkin had some mold at the blossom end this morning. I sprayed with bleach, then wiped it off, but found softening at the blossom end and on the bottom. One less pumpkin in the patch. This one weighed (by the scales) 2 1/2 pounds at 11 DAP. Penny's OTT estimate was 26# at that age. What a difference. Not to make comparisons between my babies, mind you...they're all really beautiful.
This lost pumpkin was in the part of the patch that has been making puddles beneath the fogger/misters. I knew it was too wet there, even with sand beneath the pumpkin, but didn't have much way to change it. Digging trenches wouldn't have worked--water won't run uphill; and downhill would taken the trench through the vines.
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