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Saturday, June 26, 2010
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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that close up shot made the small split look like the grand canyon with the early morning shadows. here is a top pic with captan on it this afternoon. very loose slack main that is propped has zero pressure on it and i think it will be fine. i have seen this cracking in this area before on stems with no stem or vine stress and they have always healed fine too, just never this early on a 12 day old pumpkin. and you can see on the right an area of main vine that was covered and uncovered and the staining of the green color to brown from the soil. again i call this a pre-rot situation that will lead to rot if vines buried too deep too long in saturated soil like we have had this year. those areas are solid to the touch and just look ugly but definately enough evidence to me of not burying except at the junctions and then unburying later on those areas not washed off by rain. i will have to say, i have more top roots than ever this year making it down and around by burying on top of the junctions besides just along side. i used to just make sure the bottoms tapped in with myco buried. the plants are still growing like ape shit with this rain sun and heat and the patch will completely filled out by the end of the week. the heavy storm that rolled in overnight threw down another inch of rain at least. hoping the girls do not blow cuz they are all 3 on their own with out backups. the main vines on the 1147 and 873 are terminated and the 991 main has a female in the tip at 30 something feet if needed, but Clegg has jumped up to almost 5" per day on day 14 now and is kicking in gear day by day. it was the tiniest female at pollination and is basically about 1 or 2 days behind kenny on the 1147 that was almost the size of a lemon on pollination day and the biggest i ever saw at that stage.
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