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Saturday, May 13, 2006
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Tony Pumpkin
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Abbotsford BC
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Well, looks like my plant may be in the clear afterall. I guess it was more a case of the "newbie nerves" than anything, but it really looked like I was starting to get a double vine. At any rate, thanks to all those who emailed with their advice. Now that the plant has grown a couple of days I think it has a normal vine--but, (and as many who emailed me thought) it did look like a double for awhile.
So anyway, as you can see the 1446 seems to be growing really well! I took the picture above next to a beer bottle for scale--that beer is Vancouver Grandville Island--excellent stuff, and much deserved after a hard days work in the yard. Today--she is 19 days since the seed hit the soil. The leaf closest to the camera is the first true leaf--pretty huge eh? I think it has around seven leaves in various stages of development right now--and it is starting to vine--beginning stages--nice deep green in all the leaves. Tomorrow the forcast is for hot weather (26C!!!) so I will water deeply in the late morning with the soaker hose I set up around the plant today--and also make sure I open the greenhouse to let the hot air escape. I think I'll have to get another 100 feet of soaker once the plant grows (Costco has a great deal on $17.00 for 100 feet).
Also, I added anotehr huge orange garbage bag of grass clippings from around the yard--sort of scattered them about the pumpkin mound and put about 1 lb of granular 18-18-18 around the perimiter of the plant. I will move in a few hundred lbs of topsoil later on in the summer to increase the size of the mound.
So far so good I think! Thanks again to all those who emailed!
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