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Monday, August 21, 2006
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Tony Pumpkin
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Abbotsford BC
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Just a note: there is a beer can on top of the previous photo for an idea of scale.
Today I took a walk around the patch and realized the massive amount of tertiaries sprouting (must be 20 or so that are at least 3-8 feet long). I had about a dozen little pumpkins a bit bigger than marble size, and one was the size of a softball. I pruned all the little pumpkins off and also lots of the side growth and males from the tertiaries. I will dead-head most of them in the days to come. I did want to get these new leaves into play in hopes of increasing the length of my plants life--so I let the tertiaries grow lately. I now wonder if all the tertiaries and small fruit were what caused the dramatic decrease in weight gains on my main fruit?? I'll see what happens as i slowly prune them over the next few days.
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