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Wednesday, May 24, 2006
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Tony Pumpkin
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Abbotsford BC
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Lots of rain and nothing but. Low temperatures too. Still, when I go to work I have to open the back of the greenhouse so the sun doesn’t come out by fluke and burn my plant. I wish I was home to adjust the greenhouse according to the immediate conditions, but work is work eh?
I am seeing the first sign of males appearing on my main vine, they are very small—about the size of a small fingernail, I haven’t been able to verify if any of them are small females, but I don’t think so.
The main seems to have traveled over a large leaf and that (in conjuction with the slope) seems to be keeping it floating up high. It is about 4.5-5 feet long at the moment. I used a couple of bamboo skewers to try and train it down a bit, part of it is touching the ground—sure hope I don’t kink it!
Yesterday I spent about 1.5 hours wrapping another 100 feet of soaker hose around the plant—takes time to get it right. I think I have a good watering setup. 100 feet of soaker is buried slightly, right around the immediate mound and the other 100 fans out around a 20 foot radius from the sides of the plant. I may add another 100 later on for the surrounding long vines or water the long vines by hand.
Soon I will have to contend with growing a pumpkin on the steep hill of my back yard (if everything goes right). I sure wish I would have pushed the mound further back to where my lot was more flat. Not sure how I will grow a pumpkin on a slope—I am thinking of rigging up a piece of rigid plywood and putting a bunch of sand on it. Any ideas, please email me.
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