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Friday, April 17, 2015 Matt D. Connecticut

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Gaining knowledge form other growers is always helpful and a horticulture teacher named Michael Martin, at the Connecticut Juvenile Training School in Middletown, CT provided the use of a state-of-the-art greenhouse as well as critical help during the winter growing season. Due to the extreme cold this past winter, environmental control was a necessity and Mr. Martin grows using the latest LED lighting technology which lighting could have been a hindrance in the past projects. His expertise of greenhouse environmental controls made him the ideal candidate to accomplish this year's winter breeding project. Martin would like to credit the pumpkin to the superb greenhouse facility at CJTS. It is also worth mentioning that this pumpkin was grown in only 11 cubic feet of soil, making the yield a whopping 12lbs./cubic foot! The picture shows just three bags of soil that was the entire growing medium for the entire plant. Congratulations to the Therapeutic Horticulture program at CJTS for successfully breeding the 132.2 CJTS "Dinosaur Egg" giant pumpkin this past winter!
 



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