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Friday, May 27, 2005
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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it was a pleasant surprise to see 2 male flowers open up this morning on the 1247. its been a while since i had the priviliege to smell that sweet scent. should be about 8 days before the female opens since it is right now between pea size and marble size. if Timmer's 1446 has enough male flowers come that time, then i will use the 1446 to pollinate the 1247. otherwise i should have plenty of males on the 1247 in 8 days, or at least i hope so. the main vine tonight measured exactly 11'9" so the blossum should extend to around 12 or maybe 12.5' which is nice. a 6-4 pollination would fall on a weekend and give me 76 solid growth days by august 19th. the first two secondaries on each side are about 7' long and i will begin terminating secondaries about the time of pollination which i have read to be the desired scenario. it does make perfect sense to keep moving the source/sink relationship forward to your pumpkins as the pumpkin first starts to grow. every snip of a terminated secondary takes all that energy used to grow those vine tips and sends it forward to the kin. its getting pretty cool when you see male flowers opening and a female out past 10'. go time for the 1247 is right around the corner.
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