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Thursday, October 04, 2018
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wile coyote
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On a cliff in the desert
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Critters are bound and determined to eat any pumpkin I am growing. I put a blanket over my anti critter cage on my Tobeck 1836 X Tobeck 2002 cross a few days ago. Today I found they had eaten a hole in the blanket and tried to chew thru the screen unsuccessfully. Put an old car floor mat over hole in blanket. I'd like to see them try to chew thru that. Oct 8 is 40 DAP so I will have viable seeds from this pumpkin and can take it to Stillwater. 2002 Tobeck plant doing well with plastic over it and getting grow light treatment at night. Leaves are looking much better now. With the recent rains, the plastic has turned into a greenhouse over the leaves. Rain holds the plastic down in each section. It's even done that for the anti critter cage I have over the 2002 Tobeck X 1836 cross I have growing there. Best case scenario 25 DAP for the pumpkin. Worst case 20 DAP. Don't remember exact date of pollination. Pumpkin shows no sign of aborting and I can see it clearly through the plastic over the anti critter cage. Pumpkin still size of small cucumber. I'll probably get seeds the size of cucumber seeds from this pumpkin. I don't care about size. As long as they are viable and germinate.
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