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Sunday, September 18, 2011
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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here is an interesting pic i took today of the varmint damage on the 1209 main vine at 7' from the stump. the pumpkin is set at 15'. i had to decide back then to either leave the main with the damage grow or chop and train the closest secondary to be the new main. after seeing Chris Stevens' hail damage that healed on his main last year, i decided to leave it be and protect it. it was an approximate 3" long bite running with the vine about a quarter to a third inch wide at the time of damage. if you see the june post with more severe damage, it looked like that with just nibbling on the very top in a thin straight line. captan was applied to the wound and a small table with a small silver piece of tarp over it with a brick on top was used to never allow any water inside the exposed opened up top of main. and now the pumpkin is estimated at 1050 pounds and still slowly adding a few pounds with only about 20 very poor looking older leaves and some new recent growth still kicking out. pretty neat how these things can heal with these bigger contusion tumor like woody growth, similar to a knot in a tree. i might have got one bigger on a retrained secondary, but by the time i would have waited for that, i would have been trying to set in higher 95 + heat that soon followed. i am glad i let it play out and appreciate the input from Chris' diary last year.
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