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Sunday, August 05, 2012
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Pumpkin Shepherd
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Georgetown, Ontario
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Five days ago when I measured the 1404 Bryson, it had dropped from 19 pounds a day for a five day average to 5 pounds a day. This pumpkin never really took off, never did over 19 pounds a day and was the worst plant ever for wilting and burning in the sun. I am assuming it stopped growing around Day 35 (400 pounds). We cut it up and removed the plant tonight and there was no signs of anything that would have caused it to stop so my guess is the weeks of extreme heat just made it abort, or there was something "wrong" right from the start. So I'm left with a 1605 Sweet with a big stem split that may open up into the cavity any day now, and my own 1266 that the main snapped off 2 feet from the stump so I now have a July 14th pollination on a side vine on that on that one. On a good note, I do have a 1381 Swarts that is 350 pounds ahead of my biggest one last year (1266) on the same day. I just hope it doesn't stop growing any time soon.
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