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Saturday, June 11, 2005
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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only saw the one svb and worked in the patch all day and until past twilight. and Timmer killed the only one we saw. it was moving real slow and i think it got a taste of the talstar one we sprayed last week. but after finding 2 cuke beetles doing it doggystyle (or should i say from behind beetle style) on my sunflower leaves, i decided to bring out the demand cs tonight and sprayed every vine, leaf stalk, underside of leaves, on top of leaves where little pools of the mix run down the funnel leaf covering that leaf stalk and the vine where the stalk connects, which is them bastards svb's favorite hidding spot, where they back that red ass up to and lay there eggs. well i will sleep good tonight knowing i am protected on all growth up to this point (except vine tips and young tender leaves) for both insects and disease as i added daconil to the mix. i placed bamboo stakes at current sprayed areas where i stopped spraying to avoid vine tips and small developing leaves. i will spray these new growth vines and leaves about every 3 days until the patch fills out to maximum. i will spray the entire plants every 10 days with daconil and demand cs. this might but a little overkill because the product lasts for up to 3 weeks. but having lost great growing pumpkins 2 years ago to svb's to not having any svb damage last year, i am playing it more safe than sorry. last year i went heavy just because of paranoia from the year before and the plants can handle it every 10 days no problem. i will leave up the shade cloth for 3 more days and the temperatures are supposed to drop big time on tuesday or wednesday. it has worked great and all plants have grown a foot per day for the past 4 days. the 5 day old pumpkin on the 1247 might lay down tomorrow. its still in the air with a long stem that is very thick already.
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