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Saturday, June 18, 2005
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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my pumpkin on the 1247 with the healed split stem is now named Ol' Crackey. it measures 17.5' around tonight on day 8 and looks to be able to make the 20" mark by the morning of day 10 if all continues to go well. the torpedo shaped female at 18' is still growing and has a crazy long stem them is sticking the female straight up. this time i placed some small styrofome blocks under it and will let it slowly lay down without the stress on the stem to avoid having Ol' Crackey Sr. and Ol' Crackey Jr. if this odd shaped small pumpkin makes it through, it will be called Homer and Crackey and Homer will compete to see who wins the chance to grow to fruition. i might have a state fair pumpkin after all. Crackey will have 70 days and Homer will have 65 before having to cut and load. if either is a good one still growing nice at that time, then they will be Sandwich Fair Pumpkins and possibley Didier Farm pumpkins too.
the 905 has a female on a nice secondary that will be pollinated in about 8 days. if this one takes, then it will become the new main extended out. i have left 4 secondaries before the snap off point and will let each one with a female grow around an out and set them all before picking which secondary with the nicely set pumpkin on it to keep as the new extended main and whack the other ones off and let the new main keep running out where the old main would have been growing.
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