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Friday, August 09, 2013
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ApertureScience
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Federal Way, WA
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All right, first with the good news:
The Dill still has three secondaries and a main that are growing like crazy, so the square footage of the plant goes up everyday. The pumpkin on the Dill, pictured here, 15 DAP, is 72 OTT and 31 CC (still skewed to the larger end of the spectrum due to the shape), which is 1 OTT larger than the last cull on the same day, woot! Can't complain about that, even if it's a dismal 15 DAP compared to everyone else's; it did grow 4" CC in 24hrs ;). I'll get some fabric and sand under it pronto. Lastly, the 1478 pumpkin, which basically completely stalled for the first entire week the plant showed symptoms, has started growing like crazy and is 73 OTT at 18 DAP. I don't know how that's even possible, but it is and I'm incredibly happy something is growing on it. I really hope other growers out there are giving the 1478 Clementz a shot and do it justice!
Now the bad news:
After a lot of research, the leaf symptoms on my plant look EXACTLY like Fusarium in several older grower diaries and at least one of the tap roots on the 1478's main looks to have rotted. Luckily, I only buried the leaf nodes and after uncovering some, I can't find any rot on either main vine or secondaries. I think, if I'd had any watering system other than drip irrigation, I'd probably have two rotten plants by now. Even worse, I realized the symptoms showed up within two days of me using a brand new bag of potting soil to bury the leaf nodes...gah. Luckily, the symptoms haven't worsened at all, probably because it has only rained once in the last 40+ days, heh. Mole #2 is still alive and well but not using any tunnels I set the trap in. Ah well.
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