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Monday, September 08, 2014
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Iowegian
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Anamosa, IA [email protected]
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Gourd update: Jacob and I each have 2 real nice gourds taped to boards in safe keeping. The slant board success I posted on August 29 is now 112" long and growing slowly. It is on the 137.5 Ansems. We have one on the 115.13 Wright that grew Jacob's gourds that didn't get taped to a board and ended up bent. Following the curve it is 106". It got a slight crack that I sealed up with duct tape. My slant board failure was on the 139.25 Ansems. Following the curves it measured 106" of good gourd, 7" of shriveled green gourd and 1.5" of brown rotting tip. None of it shriveled up as long as it was on the board and in the sun. After I took it off the board it grew under leaves and the shriveling and brown stuff started. Maybe shade is a key to the shriveled tip problem? All of the 139 gourds that set in the shade under the trellis fizzled out much sooner.
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