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Tuesday, July 01, 2008
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OkieGal
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Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
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Der Zepplin! Freddie is 21.75" side to side, 17" end to end and 37.5" circumference, at 14 days since I swished the pollen. I gave up on my grand pyramid I was going to put 'cover the pumpkin with tarps against hail' wires on and just went for quick (surprising how 95F/35C and BLAZING sun tends to make you want to go in!) And. The chunk of mill fabric I ordered was more than big enough to give me enough to grow a few hundred pounds of pumpkin on so I installed that too. Yesterday to today was 4" of circumference, so it must be getting SOME poundage. It is also being tweaked over a fraction a day to give vine/shoulder clearance; I've made about 10 degrees improvement so far. As it gets bigger I doubt I'm going to get much more... it should still make it to the target. When growth tapers off... I'll sever and lug to scale. I'm gonna win!!!! (barring varmits and hail of course, as well as blowing it) Yeah I have discovered, do not touch except with padded cotton balls, it has a few scars. Skin is EXTREMELY fragile. Pretty doesn't matter, it's tonnage! FF only shows age where I got a little too much antiSVB spray on old leaves near the stump (going around the plant and spraying), she's pretty spry and got lots of shiny lovely cupshaped leaves yet. I also had to rebury a few moved vines that had just started to put in roots, and severed a few tertiaries (remember FF is all secondaries) in bad spots. She lost about 10' of vine and doubt it'll even notice.
Set second on the Langevin 1018 today and the next one on the Young 1009 is showing on tip, so they are both right in the 'window' for setting for fair. The two I set yesterday look good, (one on each, crossing them to each other) can't WAIT for them to start outdoing Freddie.
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