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Wednesday, January 02, 2013
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P and P (Pilot and Pumpkin Grower)
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Issaquah, WA
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As luck would have it we got an undetected foaming stump in the primary plant and it exploded about 20 feet down the length of the vine. Fruit would come on, grow to the size of a basketball then die off. This happened about 6 times. Jeff did a very careful examination of the plant and discovered foaming stump, again (2 years in a row!). He drilled some holes in the base, applied Captan, and tried sucking out the foam with a turkey baster. In the end the vine exploded about 20 feet from the stump. The plant was done. This left us with the 4th place plant grown off the 1190 Northrup. This was the smallest of the plants and had been cut back to a small 90 square foot area of the patch. We ripped out every other plant and gave the 1190 Northrup the run of the patch. It had been almost completely pruned back at this point. In fact, the main vine had been grown like a horse shoe.
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