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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
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pumpkin cholo
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Bloomington, IN
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The sole fruit on the 1147 started showing white splotches on its blossom end a couple of days ago, a sure sign it’s aborting. :( Ever since the nearly four inches of rain we got on 7/22, the 7/14 pollination on the 1250 has had problems with its stem splitting a lot. A few of those splits eventually extended into the fruit causing those areas to rot, and despite keeping a fan on it 24/7 to try to keep it dry, scraping out the rotten muck and regularly applying a chlorothalonil fungicide straight from the bottle (last two days sulphur dust), moisture coming from within the fruit itself kept moistening the wound and allowed the wound to just keep rotting and rotting no matter what I was doing. Eventually it seemed the plant was sensing what was going on and decided to abort it (white splotches on blossom end), so I cut it off. It was 22 days old and weighed 29.5 pounds (wtf?). And to add a little more insult to the matter, the remaining 7/17 pollination I had been planning on growing as an ‘Oh Shit’ pumpkin aborted at pretty much the same time (other 7/17 pollination aborted a few days before). I didn’t weigh it but I’d say it was in the 5-10 pound range. So now I’m down to only two of an original six pollinations, excluding an open pollination today. One of them was pollinated by the 1147 on 7/20, this one is showing a very distinct deformity in one of its lobes, like it just didn’t ‘take’ properly, and so is not growing nearly as fast as the other lobes on the same fruit. The other fruit was self pollinated on 7/21 and so far looks normal and is growing at about the same rate as the other one.
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