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Sunday, August 13, 2006
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Tony Pumpkin
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Abbotsford BC
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I held back water today as I noticed two stem end splits on my main fruit! It is still really small (about 1/16 inch wide) but one of them runs into the flesh of the pumpkin for about 1 inch and it is the width of a thick fingernail--like a fine crack! My other fruit has two gapping stem end splits--and I have not measured it in some time since I have been busy. I will measure it tomorrow to see if it is still growing, but the stem is seperating big time on that one and I have fears that my main fruit will follow suit and do the same thing! Funny thing is, it is only gaining about 10-15 lbs a day, so it should not split the way it is--what do you do--if it splits it must be the genetics? It is at about 587 lbs today. I think it would gain more if I poured on the water, but as I said I cut back to half what I normally give the plant during hot weather.
Oh well, we'll see what happens. The last one had a split that just got progressively worse--the end of the season might be near. Time will tell.
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