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Friday, January 13, 2017 The Pumpkin Kirkwood, MO

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I’d also like to mention this will be my third year growing. My first year weighed 420.5 lbs and was grown in poor soil and the plant was not big and thriving. Last year I was lucky to get anything to the scale and only made it to 300.5 lbs. this was due to ribbon vines and stump rot. Every side vine decided to terminate themselves in this bundle of flowers and I lost the stump mid-season due to rot. This year I am mounding the stump up and using a cover starting in June. Strangely enough after taking seeds out of my 300 pounder and germinating a couple. One grew 4 cot leaves, the other one grew a ribbon vine instead of a first true leaf. This leads me to say the ribbon vines had something to do with genetics. Attached is a picture of the ribbon vines/flower vines last year from one of the secondary’s.
 



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