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Monday, July 24, 2006
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Tony Pumpkin
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Abbotsford BC
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Another shot of the stump with a bunch of sulphur powder on it. The stump continues to grow--now over 12 inches in circumference! I did not have a can handy for scale so I used a baby food jar.
At any rate, this is the other bit of bad news. You can see where the rot has hit (mainly on the left and right primaries). The small depression by the baby food jar is where it has gone through the flesh--although I think I have it under control because there was no more "guck" and the areas were dry. However, the vines around the pumpkin where I have cut off old fruit have some rot too. I cut the stems closer to the vines, and i may even cover them if I have to (like with tiny plastic tarps) I think the overhead watering is aggravating both the aphid situation and the rot, but it is also noticeably increasing my weight gains.
One surprising thing is that where the vines are blown apart there is absolutely no rot. Even in areas where the blown vines are filled with dirt and water, they do not rot. I am getting more and more convinced that blown vines are not very problematic at all.
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