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Monday, January 16, 2017
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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Here's to 2017! Unusual to have snow on the ground for a month or more in western Washington. The hill to the left of the contraption is a new mulch pile. This is where I grew 2 plants last year with 11 fruits totaling 2400 lbs. A great first year success! The largest were 462 and 441.5.
50 lbs of potatoes also from the same hill as the pumpkins.
I used the 1122 Emmons (1662 Stelts x 1610 Leiber) and the better of the two plants did produce about 1500 lbs of fruit so I think the genetics in some of the Emmons seed is as good as its parents. I did not prune tertiaries but I did prune the vine ends. The plants were about 450 and 350 sq. ft. 800 total. Why the second plant produced less lbs per sq foot I'm not sure, but it also had smaller leaves and wilted sometimes... The first plant never wilted much at all! An excellent plant!
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