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Wednesday, September 03, 2014
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Iowegian
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Anamosa, IA [email protected]
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I cleaned up the stem on Survivor, scraped off the bad stuff and painted on fungicide. A little liquid fungicide poured into the stem split and some sulfur was blown in. No signs of extra splitting, but growth is down to a crawl. I gave it a foliar feeding last night and will repeat tonight, I'm using high potash tomato fertilizer to try to jumpstart the fruit growth. The last time we had a pumpkin with a stem split quit at Labor Day, It was Jacob's and it went down a week before weigh off. That was an unusually hot September so if Survivor is done growing I hope the weather turns cool. It is supposed to hit 90 tomorrow and then a big cold front will set off big storms. Jacob and I picked 2 more gourds to get them into safe keeping. We don't want a storm to knock them down and break them. We will each have a competitive entry and an exhibition entry, and the shortest this year beats our best from last year. So even though the pumpkins won't be great we still have a lot to be thankful for.
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