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Saturday, August 13, 2005
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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the wall has been officially hit by noah. 4" ott in 5 days. that equals an estimate weight of 691 lbs with only 5 pounds per day average over the past 5 days. Timmer's pumpkin on his 1446 is somewhere in the 630 pound range estimate and it looks to go heavy if you ask me. he is not happy that i have stalled, but he is getting excited about the weigh off when we will put them on the scales and see who is the king of the patch this year. we have been laughing our asses off coming up with ideas to make a crown to be worn by the king of the patch and the winner will hold the crown until it is taken from him in years to come. his pumpkin is still growing slowly too and might have a better chance at putting on additional pounds before the weigh off since i have a lession that has formed on noah's stem that is oozing. i have cleaned it with bleach water, applied captan and have a fan on it, but the rainy conditions and 100 percent humidity are not helping it heal up and i am afraid it is not just a superficial external problem. it might be the reason the pumpkin slowed so much recently. it started with a darker spot on the stem that has grown slowly the past 3 days and is about the size of a dime right now. hopefully i will get it in check and dried off and healed before too long when the humidity breaks on monday. the stem end splitting problems on tre' that healed 2 weeks ago have now started back up again and now i have some splits on the stems too. the cracks go from the stem into the pumpkin this time, none all the way into the cavity, but they are weeping pretty bad and have also been treated with captan and a fan. tre' is estimated at 502 pounds today on day 43 and still growing 14 pounds per day.
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