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Thursday, November 08, 2018
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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Entry 275 of 290 |
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Blossom end of the 541 Clayton (1472.5 Sherwood). The interesting thing about this one is its 140+ DAP. I was worried that we would have to try to get this one to an early weigh off but in fact it might have lasted a couple weeks past Halloween... The stem rotted in the rain recently, but the pumpkin itself survived the most recent week of rain. If I had covered the main vine with blankets or something to protect against frost it could have reached 150 DAP with no issues???
I feel like the long time this pumpkin was on the vine was part of the reason it achieved a relatively good conversion of sq ft of plant to lbs of pumpkin.
From this observation, I’m guessing there are main three factors that are most important to getting a top result: 1) the health and size of the root system, 2) the inherent cellular potential of the baby pumpkin, and 3) the health and longevity of the leaves.
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