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Monday, September 06, 2010
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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i just went back and re-read my diaries from the past 2 years and realized there have been times that i have thought they have stalled and were stalling at late age but kept slowly growing and put on up to 50 more pounds when i initially said they were done. in each case i did add more late drenches of K at higher doses for a kick and a spell of warm weather helped and continued watering was done to give them a nudge or kick in the butt a little. with today going up to 85 and a nice week of weather predicted, i brought out the boot to kick em a bit. the boot consisted of 3-18-18, 0-0-25, neptunes seaweed and fish and cal-mag. every spot along the main was drenched nicely and all spots that have healthy enough leaves to produce were drenched. a total of 12 watering cans total throughout the entire plant. then i used a hose without a nozzle and used my thumb to direct a larger amount of water in all these areas under the canopy to thoroughly incorporate all these goodies deep enough to all the roots and to help disperse laterally a bit from the areas i could reach with my 6' pouring tube held up to the end of my capless 2 gallon watering cans. now i am running the overhead sprinkler to also help saturate the ground and move those goodies throughout the soil around the entire root system and then not water for 2 days to let all the nutrients get soaked up into the plant as it pulls out the remaining moisture from this good watering. then back to 2 hours a nite under canopy watering only as the cooler soil, cooler temps and less foliage will require less watering. i am also hitting with co2 tonight and will hit with that every 5 days. i am not going to measure for 2 weeks and will continue treating the pumpkins the same. hopefully this will continue growth at least at a snails pace...but any growth is better than no growth.
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