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Thursday, June 12, 2014
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Matt D.
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Connecticut
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1676.5 Daletas ’12 (F: 1381 Checkon x 1495 Stelts)
This plant has the largest estimated leaf area out of all six plants that I have growing this year. However, compared to the same day last year, it is smaller than I had just one year ago. Personally, I think the weather has to do with this smaller size and while it is smaller it is not too far behind. While we as giant pumpkin growers never like to be behind, I think that this plant (and even all of my others) is not out of contention as of today.
While it seems the standard for comparison this time of year is main vine length, I have had plants in the past that grow a great main vine but do not ‘fill-in’, so I developed the idea of Leaf Area Estimation which is basically the area of a triangle. (This works best for the standard Christmas Tree style of pruning.) All you have to do is measure the width of the plant and the length of the main vine. Then it is simply (1/2)*(width of the plant)*(main vine length) = Leaf Area Estimation.
Estimated Leaf Area = 140 square feet
Main Vine Length = 16.5 feet
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