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Saturday, March 16, 2013
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Pumpking
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Germany
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Now let�s go ahead with the 1385.5 Jutras and the 1161 Rodonis. Basically the same trend is there, i.e., the pumpkins from patches smaller than 500 sqft cause a steeper skew of the trend line. However, this effect is less pronounced and one could argue that the 1385 and 1161 are more susceptible towards patch size increase and 985 and 998 are not. I suspect a different origin for this weight/sqft correlation of the 1385 and 1161: After the 1725 Harp and 1810 Stevens had been grown, more and more people have been trying to get more out of those particular two seeds, and those experienced growers who sort of did everything right (soil prep etc.) just wanted to be on the safe side and didn�t want to lose any pound of the potential by limiting the patch size. I suspect that with the same care the same plant would have grown a similar size pumpkin in a slightly smaller patch (maybe 100 sqft less)...but I cannot prove this hypothesis.
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