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Saturday, July 25, 2020 Pumpking Germany

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In the past two years my pumpkins received names. This year, oh well, I didn´t have the right inspiration for names. The only proper name, which came to my mind, was for this green squash (1384* Jutras x 1935.5* Jutras, pollinated on 4th July). The name is "Würmel", a tiny carrier of so much hope. The reason is, this was a back-up plant. Initially, I planned to grow the 1109* Jutras, started two seeds, only one germinated. Also, I´ve had a 1384* Jutras seed, which had a crack and I didn´t want to store it for another couple of years, and so I started it as a back-up. In the beginning, the 1109* planted next to the 1384*, the latter was a weaker plant with rather slow development. But very soon, it kept up with the 1109*, and finally it proved to be much more well-behaved, developed a nice secondary vine pattern, whereas the 1109* had horribly rigid vines pointing in all directions, and the first two females on the main vine of the 1109* were deformed, they (or their stems) were fused with the secondary at the same leaf node. Hence, I decided to get rid of the 1109* monster and allow this tiny carrier of hope to enter the race. So far, I´m happy with my decision.
 



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