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Monday, April 28, 2014
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BatCaveN8
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The North Coast
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With the help of a really good friend I was able to negotiate the unexpected turns that life can throw at you and save my grafting season. Together we were able to graft 40 plants, all of which took. They were grafted to Shintosa, C. Ficifolia, and a disinfected giant pear gourd (lagenaria). A few of those plants were discarded later due to fungal infections on some of the plants that had twisted or cots with dead spots in them. Not to be confused with GSB thankfully. What I can say is that this was the easiest season for grafting C.C. yet and it wasn't because my skills got better or that I tried harder during the procedure. Anymore I struggle to care half the time with this pursuit. I do believe that the disinfection process has had a positive affect. It is very hard to prove at this point or to say that everything will end the way I hope but I am more confident than last season. Last year at this stage I had plants at all different stages of healing, some had crashed and burned, and some healed only to show GSB later on. Very few were perfect from the start. This season, excluding the plants with the damaged cots, all the plants are showing remarkable uniformity in healing time and appearance. As a group they have another day until they are officially out of the woods and ready for delivery but things are moving along quite predictably for once with these melons.
Without a doubt these have the highest potential ever for a competition melon plant. The main word there is potential, we will all see.
Thanks to those who are eager to try them out, it is the fuel behind the process.
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