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Tuesday, June 12, 2018
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Matt D.
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Connecticut
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1367 VanHoutte ‘16 (F: 2145 McMullen ‘15 x 1585.5 Werner ‘14)
I had success with this seed last year, it was a consistent plant but seemed to be average with nothing all that impressive. Now, this year the plant is by far my most aggressive. In fact, I have never had a plant this big on this date before! Now, I have to remember that this is only a plant but I certainly have a lot of leaf area to push any pumpkin I am able to pollinate.
While it seems the standard for comparison this time of year is main vine length, I have had plants in the past that grow a great main vine but do not ‘fill-in’, so I developed the idea of Leaf Area Estimation which is basically the area of a triangle. (This works best for the standard Christmas Tree style of pruning.) All you have to do is measure the width of the plant and the length of the main vine. Then it is simply (1/2)*(width of the plant)*(main vine length) = Leaf Area Estimation.
Leaf Area Estimation= 337.5 square feet
Main Vine Length= 22.5 feet
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