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Sunday, July 30, 2017
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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Patch update. This is my 150 sq ft entry doing pretty well now. Lol... Oops, wrong picture! Sorry to scare you!! ;) This is a couple years ago my girls with an Emmons pumpkin during a much appreciated patch tour.
So the good news first, the 1992.5 150 sq ft Thing 1 and Thing 2 are starting to show some color (unexpectedly). Also the 1929.5 Barlow and 1472 Terry (a good vigorous plant!) showing some color possibly. I also think the 1774.5 Carter will get some color and its a speedy grower too. The 1462 Gibson has has a lot of color and I'm very happy. I don't remember exactly what I traded for this seed... some good stuff but I'm happy with any trade that gets me a great shaped large orange Wallace x Pukos pumpkin like this one. I don't know exactly how much color some of these will have but I'll take all the color I can get. And maybe not surprisingly the most gleamingly bright is the 334 House which is an incendiary canary yellow and basically looks amazing even though its only about ten DAP.
Which gets us started into the bad news... Unfortunately the cross was not controlled I think it must have gotten bee pollinated.
And the bad news keeps coming. My 959 Holland had a nice shape and was on track to hit 600 lbs for the Puyallup fair. Well I hit it with my shovel and it went in over an inch. I believe its going to go downhill quickly it was just a little too deep a cut. It felt like butter these things are so soft. I will try washing with daconil and keeping it dry but like I said I think it was just too deep. And I won't have any Daconil until tomorrow if I can find any at all.
Next its that the voles have eaten through the 1775.5 Sperry. All the way though the base of the plant. I think there are only a handful of voles which is good that there are not too many but how much damage can one or two voles do? Well i'm going to find out...
Lastly I think I may give up on winning the 150 sq ft competition because I am unsure the split vine just will allow the allocation of resources to just one fruit. I have been measuring the growth of the fruit on both main vines and the growth of each is precisely identical to the other. Thing 1 and Thing 2 are identical. And since it turned out to be such a good plant I don't want to cull either of the crosses and I'm probably going to allow it to set one or two more fruit just so I can get a couple more good crosses.
And one more which is I think is kinda funny... the chickens have been a little bit of a menace some of the vines have as many scratch marks as Frankenstein has stitches but the funny thing is that they have actually buried more vines this year than I have. They get next to the vine and start digging around and before you know it the vine is buried. It looks in some cases like it was done purposefully by a carefully doting pumpkin grower but alas its just the worm-crazed hens. Why did the chicken cross the road? To help you bury your pumpkin v
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