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Friday, July 01, 2011
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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well the temps this afternoon have cooperated with the cloud cover keeping the 95 degree plus temps down in the 70s and am happy about less chance of losing pumpkins or sets to possible aborts. but the female on the 1725 at 24' was a 3 lober this morning and pollinated with the 1209. ouch. but good news is the 1725 at 18' grew 3" circ from day 7 to day 8 this morning and was 18" circ at 6 am. i will make a home for the 18' female with mill fabric tomorrow and dead head the main into the pumpkin. this will be done for 2 reasons. number one the female laid down late day 3 and was going to lay on top of the main. i used a piece of styrofome wedge to keep it off the vine and it has been there since nudging the pumpkin over as it grows. too bad this foam piece has left a scar on the lower half on that side but it seems all my pumpkins have scars by the end of the year and this ain't no beauty contest in my book. it still has a very accute angle. i have left the secondary on at the junction and have that curved back and then around the space for the pumpkin to grow and then will lead that back around for more juices. and number two because the main is curved and running parellel to the secondaries due to my growing rectangular with 17.5' secondaries on each side and only 21' from stump to sidewalk, the secondaries coming off the main far out would need to be pruned anyways to have room. so as of now, this 18' female is the keeper unless it aborts for some reason and then i would use the plant as a genetic plant and grow secondary pumpkins with multiple crosses and halloween pumpkins. or possibly still set a secondary pumpkin if the worse case scenario. so my decisions are neing made for me nicely and 2 plants have keepers at this point and the 3 day old and 11 day old pumpkins will still compete on the 1493. that is if the 18' female with the star fish like 5 lobes successfully takes. otherwise i am all set with what i got.
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