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Monday, July 31, 2006
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Tony Pumpkin
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Abbotsford BC
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Took another look at the stem end split on the secondary fruit on my 1446 and it does not look good. Quite deep as far as I can tell. I tried to shove some sulphur powder into it, and I will set up a small fan to blow inside the small gap that runs quite deep. More disturbing, is when I was looking at the pumpkin itself it was full of small brown scabs and it was oozing or weeping small droplets of water or some sort of clear guck. When I think about it, it has been oozing slowly for quite some time.
Becoming more concerned, I checked the stem and blossom end of the fruit on the main and noticed a couple of tiny drops of water had leaked out of the blossom end. Dusted with some sulphur powder and immediately cut the watering time for this plant in half (30 min/day underground + 30 min/day overhead). I will also stop any foliar ferts. I will try to slow the growth down some--especially since I don't know what will happen if the other fruit stops growing due to the stem end split. Also, when I dug under all the compost I have been dumping behind the pumpkin plant (to fill up the hole I had created when I took dirt to bury the vines) I noticed that the pumpkin roots were slowly moving their way into it.
I may even cut a couple of tap roots on the main to slow her down. I'd rather have this pumpkin grow slower and longer than push it and have it "go bust". It is my only plant, and I would like to take at least one fruit to maturity--even if it is a bit smaller.
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