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Tuesday, August 20, 2013
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Reckhard
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Edmonton, 53.5N, 113.6W
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After taking a couple weeks vacation and then another two weeks for another business/personal trip I'm finally back in town. A month away and it seems the pumpkin survived - my automated watering system kept the pumpkin fed and things didn't get too far out of hand (except for the weeds which I've officially given up on). I had to do a ridiculous amount of secondary/tertiary trimming and baby pumpkin culling but it looks OK now.
I measured today and my OTT is 265 for an estimated weight of 414 lbs. Tracking very nicely towards my goal of over 500 lbs. This 1197 MacCoy plant is by far the best plant I've ever grown - no issues or problems so far.
Nights are starting to get quite cool (8�C last night)so will have to work a way to keep it warm at night. My vine is also getting quite tight on the stem - if he gets much bigger I'm going to have to pull a few tap roots downstream of the big fella to loosen things up. Fingers crossed for another month of continuous growth...
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