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Saturday, July 16, 2005
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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finished all patch work this morning before it gets too hot, but that still didn't stop me from thoroughly soaking every inch of my shorts and t shirt cuz the humidity is sick. cleaned the stem split on the 905 ailts pumpkin with 10 percent bleach water toothbrush. the split is where the stem meets the vine, and for how bad it was oozing 2 days ago and dripping onto the styrofome with a brownish rot situation developing, i think it looks pretty good and will heal up fine. i have a fan on it and took off the lawn chair that has been its shade and moisture protector, and put up a shade tarp over it. after the bleach water and wound dried up for a bit, i dusted captan over the wound and i am quite pleased with the save. hope it continues to heal up good. the fan will stay on it all weekend with the 95 degree temps with high humidity approaching again. it's name is now Lucky because it is the last chance i had to get one on the new main that was trained after the snap of the true main. Lucky is 27" circ this morning at 1030am on day 9. i have pruned all pop up tertiaries at this point on it now that Lucky looks to be on its way and will only allow the one pumpkin on this plant. so both the 885 plants and the 905 are down to just one pumpkin per plant. i am pleased to have 3 nice ones going at this point to say the least. both Noah and Tre' grew 5" circ. yesterday so all is well in the growth. Noah is 99" circ. today on day 23 and Tre' is 56" today on day 15.
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