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Saturday, April 18, 2020
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Gerald UK
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Watlington, UK
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I spent most of the afternoon laying down a new dripline system, here it is half finished. I'll complete it when I know which side the pumpkin will form as there's no point laying pipe if the pumpkin's going to squash it. Each of the white PVC feed pipes running left to right is gravity fed by a 1000 litre water tank set up 6ft off the ground just outside. Drip line is fed out adjacent to the pipes and they run towards the edges of the plot. The idea is that the pumpkin will be planted at the far left corner, and I'll train the main vine to grow from one corner to the other, from left to right and in between the two feed pipes. There won't be much space for the first few secondaries so they will be terminated early. But there will be a lot of space for the secondaries that'll appear after about 8 feet from the stump. These are the secondaries that will host the leaves that will be most responsible for providing sugars for pumpkin growth ie diamond pattern. So the theory goes anyway, fingers crossed.
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