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Wednesday, July 16, 2014
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Pumpking
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Germany
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Entry 33 of 66 |
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Finally I removed the sticks at the red-arrow and blue-arrow positions and I placed something under my pumpkin. In this case it is a sheet of styrofoam, where I cut a good number of holes in, and then I covered it with fine sand. You see that I placed this sheet of styrofoam in such a way under the fruit that there�s much styrofoam at the stem side of the fruit. Reason is, the fruit will grow in all directions. At the blossom end I can easily add another sheet, but as the fruit grows and the vines in the back of the fruit turn into a dense jungle it will be impossible to add more styrofoam at the stem side of the fruit.
Let�s see what happens as this fruit grows (hopefully it will grow for the next 10 weeks). My guess is that the junction between vine and stem will then rest at about 1 - 1.5 ft above ground, somewhere between the red-arrow and yellow-arrow positions.
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