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Saturday, September 13, 2008
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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all the potassium added and gustav's rain definately helped and i threw the tape on the pumpkins on 9-11 and was pleasantly surprised to see a little more growth out of cosmo on the 1446 which was at 356.5" ott and estimated about 950 lbs on day 80. georgie on the 1041 also has slowly added some growth and was at 354" ott and about 930 pounds on day 72. i took a chance on 9-3 and added heavy on the k with about a pound of 5-10-40 fert thrown directly under the canopy around the stumps and along the main before the pumpkins. gustav's rains washed it in the soil nicely. also heavy doses of 2-12-12, heavy doses of calcium, and my remaining gallon of neptunes seaweed and fish along with molasses and symbex were apllied in the same areas applying with 2 gallon watering cans. i figured lots of new leaves from pop up tertiary growth will hopefully help the pumpkins slowly grow some more until the weigh off and the new growth should also take some of the new energy from all the ferts. today the plants have a lot of new leaves and it is nice to see some fresh green color to the patch. it's a balancing act of energy and growth with out blowing them up. it has worked somewhat with no tragedies yet. but the 3"-4" of rain from yesterday and today along with ike's 2"-3" we are supposed to get tomorrow will be the ultimate test. with 2 pumpkins close to the same weight, i figured both of them won't split....right? we will see after 4 days of sunshine this week following all the rain. for once in my life i am actually glad there is some nice mixture of weeds to help keep the soil in place with the flooding rains and also help buffer the energy. with all the rain i have yet to see any standing water in the patch and the pumpkins are tarped and on mill fabric, so hopefully bottom of pumpkin rot will not be an issue.
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