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Monday, June 26, 2006
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Tony Pumpkin
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Abbotsford BC
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Pollinated 2 more females today—a 4 lober and a 6 lober. The 6 lober is about 4 feet in front of another pumpkin that I pollinated 6 days ago (see above, my biggest one so far). The other 4 lober is on a side secondary.
I woke up early in the morning to water before I went to work, and the females had not opened up yet—and I was in a hurry. So I quickly plucked a male and manipulated the females open and used the one to pollinate the two females. I don’t plan on keeping these two new pollinated pumpkins, so I was not too fussy—and the mosquitos were killing me!
Right now I am experiencing a major mosquito outbreak in the patch—probably because the soil is always wet. I got stung about 6 times yesterday and about another 6 times this morning—they are everywhere. I am wearing a long shirt and pants in the patch now. At any rate, when the sun goes down they are literally eating me alive—even biting through my shirt. I will have to do most of my irrigation, pruning etc in the heat of the day when they are not out in full force. I am also experiencing a bad allergy rash on my arms from all the yard work I have been doing over the past couple of months (happened last year too—got so bad I could not sleep last year). I have been diligent by wearing rubber disposable gloves every day, but my wrists often come in contact with the huge leaves of the pumpkin. Imagine, a pumpkin addict who is allergic to pumpkin plants.
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