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Wednesday, September 30, 2015
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Pumpking
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Germany
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Entry 49 of 52 |
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The 1495 Stelts produced my heaviest (new PB) pumpkin this year, the 619 Glasgow produced my biggest pumpkin this year (but 798 lbs only), which was quite disappointing, because I thought the 619 would produce my new PB. The growth curve (derived from OTT measurements) was much better for the 619. Now the big question is, what is the potential in the seeds of my 1495 x 619 and 619 x 1495 crosses? The 2nd picture shows the "true" weight gains (I have multiplied the OTT derived weights with 1.14 for the 1495 (it went 14% heavy) and with 0.88 for the 619 (because it went 12% light). The new curves are quite interesting. Until 35 DAP the 619 might have been ahead of the 1495 with the true weight gains! So what made the curves cross around 35 DAP? There was an event around 35 DAP which caused severe damage to the 619 plant, this event was the combination of dry soil and the very thirsty 619 plant itself. Suddenly the leaves of this plant started to dry and to die. After some decent watering (and, in order to be on the safe side, an Aliette drench as well) this process stopped and the growth curve of the 619 fruit did continue "as usual", just at somewhat decelerated speed because of the 30 - 40 % leaf surface the plant had lost.
In summary: Grower error, the 619 could have produced another 1000+ lbs fruit (probably, but who knows?).
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