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Monday, July 19, 2010
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cntryboy
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East Jordan, MI
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Belle is having another issue. Last week I noticed that one of the leaves on the main vine, that had been cracked during one of the hellish 60+MPH winds last month, was turning brown on the bottom. I thought I had pruned all of those off. Dang it! Closer inspection showed that it was full of water and starting to get soft. I cut it off. It was already starting to make the vine soft. It was at a spot where the vine did had a bow up and back down. It is on the 4th junction after the crown. There are 15 sidevines after the bad spot before the pumpkin. The vines have filled in well after the pumpkin. I hope I don't have to cut the vine, but maybe there is enough to grow a split stem pumkin without a stump. I cut off all of the soft stuff and treated with 10% bleach solution, captan and put a fan on it. The next day the vine was full of water and dripping. I drilled a hole to drain it. 2 days later , more soft tissue. I cut it out cut the side vine off at that node because it was getting soft too. I split the main on the bottom so the fan could blow up inside of it and I could get some peroxide and captan inside of it. It is looking better, but not out of the woods yet. No new soft tissue today, but still not dry. Treating twice a day and fan on 24/7 for a week now. Supposed to rain all week. Hopefully I can get it dry and let it heal.
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