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Thursday, September 24, 2009
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Honesdale, Pennsylvania
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With Rocky cutting his pumpkins from their vines early and allowing them to lose weight as you read this, it is now time for phase 3. This latest surge of warm weather should pack on a few extra pounds on our young fruit in the Honesdale area so we will continue with our feeding program to try and cross the finish line first. I was a bit surprised that Rocky wasn't saving one of their monsters for a second weigh off. I think we need to congratulate Sam with his big squash. There is nothing in Honesdale to compete with those numbers. Unfortunately the Honesdale gang is going to miss Cooperstown this year. The daughter of my good friend who passed away this summer, is getting married on Saturday and I feel I should be at the wedding. SOOOOOOO another head to head match up with the Rockwells will be missed. It looks like we will head to Altoona for a official weight and then either to Elmira or Longwood for the other pumpkins. I have not taped my odd shaped fruit in awhile but I don't think it has near the numbers of Rocky's and my second pumpkin is sitting around the 600-650 pound mark. He may very well defeat me for the second year in a row. Time will tell. My seed does have the 898 Knauss as the pollinator so maybe it will go heavy. On a positive note the Dyberry patch guy has a good long gourd going and he has a couple of pumpkins off of my 218 seed that should challenge for a "Howard Dill" award. They are bright orange with a nice shape.
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