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Monday, July 02, 2012
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Orangeneck (Team HAMMER)
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Eastern Pennsylvania
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My keys to the season this year are going to be # 1)frequent, light applications of several fungicides in rotation: Daconil, Eagle, Aliette, Banner, and Subdue. This will hopefully minimize damage/ aging to the leaves while giving me adequate protection for key # 2) Water like crazy. I have subsoiled my patch 2 years in a row and I can take a ton of water. With the current heat I've been watering in the neighborhood of 6-700 gallons every other day to my ~3000 square foot patch. This gets the water down deep and the leaves barely flag at all in the heat. This season is a bit odd in the sense that I only really have 1 true orange plant in the ground. The rest are big seeds which are not typical for me. By not growing exclusively orange I am putting my pumpkin sales in jeapardy so it is important to offset that by winning or at least placing high at some weighoffs with my big plants.
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