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Thursday, January 06, 2005 Boily (Alexsdad2) Sydney, Australia

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Day 37 for the 919 Holland and its gained 22 a day last 3 days. Starting to get some ribs now and roughening up. Plant is in good order, a little powdery mildew though popping up. Took the hounds along, Molly the chocolate lab and Jenna the gold one.

Day 37:

Circ 137", SS 95", EE 86", OTT 318" and EST at 660 pounds!!!

Measured all other fruit

1 919 Holland 137" est 660!!! big white wheel, should go heavy!
2 1036 Perez 110" est 337, very blocky would EST more OTT!
3 741 Eaton 105" est 300, long white, symetrical, very smooth!
4 699 Schroeder 96" est 240, will be orange
5 711.5 Handy 91" est 210, big ribs and very orange in the end
6 950.4 Boyton 90" est 204, no growth 46 days old, 3 more set on plant
7 140 Boyton 82" est 161, SV 64" est 86, Mr birdbath and Mr Small blocky
8 807 Beachy 80" est 152, beautiful shape and colour!
9 801 Beachy 76" est 133(SV), MV 53" est 53, Magnificent long fruit
10 960 LaRue 42" est 29, white little spud on tiny weedy plant
11 156 Gerry 32" est 13, one of the twins very round, yellow long stem
12 644 Beachy 22", 2 set way out on main, very aggressive plant!
13 583 Nepereny 22", big healthy plant with 3 mains, one fruit!
14 572 Andrews 22"(SV), looks like there's a MV set!

Spent a few hours pulling weeds around the 699, 807 and 644. Made a big difference, too many weeds to take care of!

 



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