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Monday, July 16, 2018
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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Big emotional highs and lows in the pumpkin growing... Looks like I'll be on track to a new pb off the squashkin. The low was trying to get a lovely little pumpkin on a side vine of the 406.5 to grow blossom down. It was too old maybe ten days old already too big to reposition. Crimped and split the vine in three places. There is a better possibility set on the main already so no great loss. But this came after trying to get the Holland set up and damaging the pumpkin and the critical section of the main right before the pumpkin. But that damage was from fertilizer I broadcast. I didnt notice it got on the main and one speck got on the little pumpkin at the tip of the vine. Rather than wash off when I irrigated it stuck and burned holes!! The little pumpkin now has a blemish that will be huge later. Oh I put all the work in to selecting the seed, caring for the plant and then one little speck ruins any chance it will look good! I know it sounds silly to anyone who grows for weight but... to me its a ruined pumpkin.
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