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Monday, August 01, 2011
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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after a hellish high heat and humidity day at work and a worse scenario of high humidity and heat tomorrow set up for a day that i will be in full sun, hard hat, jeans, safety vest, in a trench doing footing undercuts with no wind...............this made me smile very big and for longer than anything in a while. it's my first long neck swan gourd that has finally taken in this extreme weather. must have been the cloudy days cuz i have a total of 50 aborts easy on the first ones. i gave them a good dose of 3-18-18 and cal mag about a week ago also and hopefully i can get some more sets. this plant at this time proves to me the stress levels on all the plants. my fellow growers who have had aborts and still trying to get sets on AGs must not give up. a pumpkin set in early august can still do 250 on a secondary easy and maybe finsish 600 or 700 come weigh off and then some. hoping for many more sets on the long neck speckled swan gourds so i can make a bunch of birdhouses this winter. did i ever mention i may be a little out of my gourd. lol. budweisers taste so much better when this armpit weather is on us. going back outside to watch the team of 12 or so 4 winged 6" long dragon flies patrol the patch and pick off everything at dusk. its so cool to watch them quit flying and grab hold of the prey with in a couple feet of your head and see them secure the catch and then re-right them selves as another comes right over your head. around and around the patch these 12 go every night and everynight i say, "get em". the are black and one made its way into my house and as i cradled it in a hat that writhing torse freaked me out. i know they are not a scorpion, but get a live one in your hand that looks prehistoric and you might flinch. life is good.
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