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Monday, May 15, 2006
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Tony Pumpkin
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Abbotsford BC
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Here is a picture I took this morning from the top view (that piece of wood is a 2X4--only thing I had available for scale). As you can see the plant has begun to vine out quite nicely (it has its first tendril about 2.5 inches long). A couple of the leaves are drooping slightly, maybe it is too hot in the greenhouse--I have been opening up the back every morning, but I cannot mist because I am at work. Yesterday the main vine was quite high, but today it looks like it has lowered itself quite nicely overnight--so I may not have to train it down.
Yesterday was really hot, so I gave the entire pumpkin mound its first good soak in the morning. The 100 feet of soaker was able to go around my pumpkin mound about 5 times. Boy, these things seem to like lots of water. with traditional garden plants there seems to be the possibility of "over-fertilizing" or "overwatering", but not so with these things. I gave it a gallon this morning to close to the plant because we are expecting another 32C day today.
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