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Sunday, June 21, 2015
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Matt D.
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Connecticut
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“Anthesis” Application- Continued
This pictures shows that there is no harm in getting some of the spay mist on the actually flower but there is really no benefit of doing this. I was attempting to show that all you need is an even spray coverage on the actual pumpkin but it did not really come out in the picture. I removed the cup that was in the previous picture just to make it easier to get around the pumpkin. While the final mixing volume is 30 mL (or 1oz.) this is more than you need for one pumpkin and infect this will do about three pumpkins during the same morning.
The reason why it is important to mix-up the contents the morning you plan on using them and then make your application soon after mixing is once added to distilled water they start breaking down (which is a good thing). If the hormones did not break down the signal would be to strong and over regulate the processes that occur on the cellular level and could lead to negative mutations. By having them break down the natural cell signal is simply being extended during the critical time (48-hr. after pollination) that it is naturally high. The goal is to simply have the cells divide for longer and at a faster rate.
One potential slight negative is that the pumpkins may have slower early growth since the cell swell phase is being delayed since the cell division phase is being extended. (I never thought day 10 numbers were reliable anyway.) However, the trade-off is at the end of the season greater potential for extended growth. Each cell can expand about 11,000 times its original volume so by increasing the number of cells there is a greater opportunity to gain more weight.
This is pumpkin is on my 1719.5 Daletas ’14 plant. The tag writing in the background decoded is as follows… 6-19 = June 19th pollination day & 4 lob. = four lobe flower & 9.9 = this is the rating out of 10 for symmetry and this is a very, very near perfect rating.
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