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Friday, July 02, 2010
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EndlessTrail
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Fresno, CA
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Happy Pumpkin Conception Day!
After all my worrying, both a female and male opened today on my main plant (1004 Mohr). I pollinated and tied the flower back up. Then I put a small styro-cooler with a frozen water bottle inside over the female. If the pollination takes (the heat could be a problem) this will most likely be my pumpkin for the year.
Everything is so wierd this year I couldn't project what was going to happen. Also both flowers only half-opened by 6:30am, whereas last two years they would always kick all the way open by that time in the morning. The strangest thing this year is that most of the secondary vines are significantly stunted - tiny little things. I think that is due to one of two things: 1) that I sprayed with Pyrethrin (Neem oil extract control for aphids, mildew) on the young leaves/shoots when I should have only hit the mature leaves, or 2)The stump broke off before the plant started vining and the current main is really what would have been a secondary originally. So the secondaries are what would have been tertiaries. That's my theory. It could also be the wierd weather swings I suppose.
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