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Thursday, July 15, 2010
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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with the chicago operators and engineers strike still going on, i afeel like i am in retirement. louging around, strolling the patch, back to the air condition, back for a stroll through the patch and so on. the 1147 again grew a secondary straight up and all the terts becoming new secondaries are doing the same thing. i am down to one strong secondary now with a female on it as the other one did the cobra 's' over night and snapped itself right before the female laid down. i have the one female on the ground on the good secondary left and have it shaded and it will see a fan today until 5 days after pollination attempt. still trying as the plant fights me every day and has won up to this point the battle...but not the battles of wills. took the tape to Clegg on the 991 to see how the main vine by the stump issue is affecting it. so far, not so much which is nice. it looks to be firm and healing in the area. i opened the area with a knife more to be able to get into the cavity in the vine to remove any goo. i removed some wet captan paste, inside it to let more air flow into the vine with a strong breeze from the fan to help keep it dry. besides the finger width size hole in the side of the vine and the small drainage hole underneath it, it looks not too bad. over 3/4ths the width of the main in that spot is in tact and the stump and its roots are still being used as far as i can tell. no rot or heavy weeping at this point. need to keep it healthy in this heat wave as long as possible and have it covered so no rain or sprinkler gets close to hitting the affected area. the pumpkin averaged 36.5 pounds per day still the last 3 and is 139-84-78 and cleared the 300 ott mark sitting at 301" ott or 577 lbs estimate on day 33.
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