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Monday, July 23, 2012
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SoCal Kevin
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San Diego
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A lot to report. First, I've been away on vacation for 5 days, and just got back to take this picture of my son and his cousin who visiting San Diego for several days. But before I left, on the 19th, I did an OTT and was sad to learn that my pumpkin's growth had really slowed. I knew this would happen naturally but I was down just below 10 lbs a day and I was hoping to sustain 5 - 10 lbs higher for a while longer, in order to reach that 500 lb mark (my goal for this season).
So before I left I did a drench and a foliar feed and I also sprayed again for powdery mildew, hoping these things my reinvigorate some growth but not holding out a lot of hope.
I was pleasantly surprised to get home today (Monday) and do an OTT and find out that growth has increased! Not spectacular growth (13 lbs per day) but higher than last week so things have turned around, at least a little bit. I don't expect to go back up to high growth rates of a few weeks ago but this is better than finding growth down even more. Today's OTT was 269.5 inches for an estimated weight of 441 lbs.
I've been graphing weight gain and weight per day and will post those next.
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