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Saturday, July 26, 2008
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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newman(1306) had some blossum rot that has been addressed. i had to remove the nub flush to the pumpkin and used a tooth brush to remove all remaining goo, put a fan on it for an entire day and dusted it with captan. day 2 packed it with captan after completely dry, and left fan on for 2 more days and it looks good today. the stem end splits on cosmo (1446) have widened a little but have not lengthened or gotten deeper by any considerable amount. there is one bigger one 2 inches long and two smaller ones about an inch and a half. the fan has been on it and there is no signs of rotting. i can tell the widening a bit by the dried captan showing a little fissure in the powder. its still chugging along and hopefully they were just stress relievers and do not ever cause it to go down. keeping a careful eye on the area every day. all else is well in the patch and laney (the last chance 997) was 24" on day 10 and is still growing and is one weird shaped pumpkin at this point. it was long to start with and is now filling out more on the blossum end than the stem end and the stem end is a little lumpy and wrinkley looking. i will take a pic of all pumpkins tomorrow and show the blossum end splits on cosmo and the healed nub blossum on newman in case others are experiencing similar situations.
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