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Monday, July 12, 2010
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VTkeim
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Williston, VT
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Started this yesterday and finished it tonight, just in time too. In the past I simply used four grade stakes and a tarp to shade my pumpkins but I always hated pounding in those "huge" stakes, couldn't help thinking about how many roots were getting ripped apart. So I came up with this design, has long, thinner stakes and I can also put on some weight to hold it down, hopefully it'll withstand our wind. Today I pollinated #3 on Romeo, a 5 lobe @ ~14', this is probably going to be my last pollination. Here's the pumpkin count (sorry no pictures) - I have #1 growing well on the Pitura (all my eggs in one basket on this plant), two on the Keim (#3 is slowly chugging along at 13.5' and still waiting to see what #4 @ 17' will do, it's only 4 days old), have two starts on the Breznick (#1 is doing ok but #2 was a 6 lober @ 16' and only 3 days old) and have three starts on Romeo (#1 is an ugly oblong shape, about the size of a football, #2 appears to have aborted which is my first abort so far this year and then #3 which was just pollinated today). The goal is to have only one pumpkin per plant this year, so I'll have some tough decisions coming in the days ahead.
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