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Sunday, August 20, 2006
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Tony Pumpkin
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Abbotsford BC
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Very small weight gains again today (about 5 lbs). The stem split is getting wider--quite wide--I don't think it goes through to the cavity. I think the stem split on this fruit affected it big time. Weather has been great, I am watering abundantly, and still no more decent gains (in the 10-15 lb range) ever since the stem started to split. For some reason the pumpkin still seems like it is getting bigger to me (ha! must be wishful thinking).
The above shot is on day 60 at approx. 635 lbs. I took the shade cover off for so I could readjust it (the pumpkin was growing outside the cover and the irrigation was wetting it--don't want it to rot from underneath as it won't be moved for another couple of months or so. I dug a trench around it and put in a whole bag of extra sand to help the drainage. The pumpkin itself is resting on sand, but not a whole lot of it is underneath the pumpkin.
Sure wish I could get another couple of hundred lbs out of this fruit, but I highly doubt it right now.
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