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Sunday, July 06, 2014
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Matt D.
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Connecticut
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Patch Update…
Well, the pollination I was planning on doing on the 179.4 DeBacco ’14 “Marshmallow” was not needed since the plant has become infected with virus and was completely removed. Also, next to this plant was the 2009 Wallace ’12 which was also showing advanced signs of virus infection so I also removed it.
While I still have three plants, each of those (1676.5 Daletas, 811 Gerhardt, 220.3 DeBacco) is also infected with what is believed to be Watermelon Mosaic-2 virus. However, at this point in time I have decided not to remove these plants as they each have pumpkins that may be able to make it to day 20 before the virus reaches the part of the plant the pumpkins are located. The idea is if I can get the pumpkin beyond the age most of the cell division occurs (about day 20) I may be able to get them to the end of the season. Two years ago when my patch was infected with Zucchini Yellow Mosaic I had one pumpkin that was older than 20-days and it did not get the traditional virus bumps and I was almost able to get it to a weigh-off (I picked it early and it rotted on the trailer).
Since viruses need active dividing cells to replicate I proposed the theory that cells in our pumpkins do not divide beyond day 20. Even when your season is a loss, there can still be very important things to learn if you pay attention.
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