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Friday, June 12, 2015 Matt D. Connecticut

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1744.5 Fulk ’13 (F: 220.3 DeBacco “Snowball” x M: 1789 Wallace)

I know it is still early in the season but I think this seed has something special. My 220.3 DeBacco ’13 “Snowball” has always been a slow starter, but this cross seems to have corrected this typical slow start issue since this plant is basically tied for biggest in the patch. Now, if the aggressive and continued pumpkin growth that I have seen from Snowball can occur on a large plant from the start of the season, really big things could be possible.

While it seems the standard for comparison this time of year is main vine length, I have had plants in the past that grow a great main vine but do not ‘fill-in’, so I developed the idea of Leaf Area Estimation which is basically the area of a triangle. (This works best for the standard Christmas Tree style of pruning.) All you have to do is measure the width of the plant and the length of the main vine. Then it is simply (1/2)*(width of the plant)*(main vine length) = Leaf Area Estimation.

Leaf Area Estimation= 135 square feet

Main Vine Length= 18 feet
 



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