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Wednesday, May 24, 2017 The Pumpkin Kirkwood, MO

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2624 willemjins update: The main is 51" as of today, secondary's in their first leaf, I would say this plant is more aggressive, but I'm trying to slow it down. The leaves are getting so big they are snapping the stalks with their own weight with no wind in the closed greenhouse, luckily I just lost one leaf and the other ripped as it fell on a stake holding the main. I'm holding back on all ferts on this one, The main grew 16 " last night and I can see this one will be a salad and not a fruit pretty soon if I don't slow it down. This one would not lay its main down without a battle, she went 2.5 feet straight up and wouldn't budge in the heat of the day. I managed to get her down without any major damage. I thought she was kinked after I seen her go down abruptly as I was trying to train her down. I got really lucky and what I thought was a kink wasn't as the main bulged itself round again in a couple days. So there is no retraining a secondary, and she has not slowed down since then which was a week and a half ago! She has a baby coming in at 5 feet, I'm not pollinating that one.I probably won't do anything till 9 feet, just in case anything farther out wouldn't take. My goal is to get something 13 to 15 feet out, as I feel that will bring a big one in conjunction with everything else I'm doing.This plant has the most aggressive tap roots coming out of the leaf nodes. I will be inoculating them with marks root keeper soon. Still got to get some merit drenched, before the cucumber beetles come
 



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