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Wednesday, June 21, 2006
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Tony Pumpkin
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Abbotsford BC
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Pollinated my 5th female this morning--but left it uncovered afterwards--might be one more open after work today. The plastic bags on my other post-pollinated females are causing a lot of condensation and wilt to the flower, and I am a little worried that it might be inhibiting to some extent. Lots of females, so I have to try different things and hopefully something will work. Nothing to cross-pollinate with as I picked all the males off my squash plant, and maybe a couple of bees in there would do some good. Still no noticeable growth on the first pollination that took place 5 days ago--that pumpkin has a lot of growing to do in five days to hit the magic 23 inch circumference over 10 days--don't think that will happen at all with this one. Others are too early to tell. On last look there were more vines busted everywhere it seems, but the plant is strong with a stump almost as thick as a coke can now, and the weather is picking up--I think the pumpkins will get their grow on soon. Seems that coastal gang (aka the NSB—“B” stands for babies) have been heard trash-talking the valley boys again. In fact, a lot of hot air seems to rise up through the valley from the north end of the city. Of course, when the hot air settles my country grown “yard-trash-ladden-ditch-dirt-fed-plant” will be pitted against the NSB’s more pretentious city-grown “Agro-K-infused-George-Castanza-highfalutin-foliage”. Let the turf war begin NSB’s!
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