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Leetonia, Ohio

I am looking for orange tarps 8'x10' if anyone knows where I can get them please e-mail me at [email protected]

Thanks Dave Stelts

5/24/2002 9:48:38 AM

Indiana

To All:
Orange tarps can be purchased here. I havent bought any, but they look like they have good prices.
http://www.tarpsonline.com/orange.asp
Tom Beachy

5/24/2002 10:21:45 AM

Pulaski Tn [email protected]

what is the advantage of orange over silver??

5/24/2002 10:42:32 AM

Puyallup, WA

Some believe(mistakenly) that they will make your pumpkin more orange!!!!!

5/24/2002 10:56:17 AM

Indiana

Stan, I wouldn't say mistakenly, just ask Farmer Scott...
Tom Beachy

5/24/2002 4:52:19 PM

Puyallup, WA

Tom....they may LOOK more orange when you are viewing them under an orange tarp. However, putting an orange tarp over one pumpkin and a blue tarp over another on the same plant with the same "father"....naw, no way!

5/24/2002 9:03:36 PM

Pulaski Tn [email protected]

i'm for sure putting a silver/black tarp over what ever i get to size, i have seen somewhere last year that that will make a very green squash no matter what, thats what i'm shooting for a 400 lb squash, i think the tn. record is about 300 and something.

5/24/2002 10:56:37 PM

Deer Park WA

Fact, Scienstist have known of the blue plant pigment phytochrome since 1959. Phytochrome comes in two forms, one sensitive to light in the red, and one sensitive to light in the far red spectrum. A mulch color like orange (which reflects red light) will fool plants into thinking they are realitivly free of competitors and put their energy into strong root developement. A darker red mulch reflects a lot of far red spectral light (as do green leaves) and will trick the plants into putting more energy into above ground growth and into ripening fruit early in an effort to outcompete what they percieve are competing and crowding competitive neighbors. Light wavelengths have a natural stimulation on plant growth through their effect on phytochrome. Orange is more than trying to change the color of the fruit...

Best wishes G. Gadberry

5/25/2002 12:17:44 AM

South Hill, Virginia

Thats exactly what I was going to say Gads:)

I don't know about all that science stuff but since Dave Stelts asked about them I figured I should go ahead and order mine.

5/25/2002 12:54:03 AM

Commack, NY

ya got that right tom......no silver tarps for me this year, not after last years very near disaster! :)

scott

5/25/2002 8:34:48 AM

Puyallup, WA

Now you guys are going to make me ask a retired Phd from the Agricultural Department of Washington State University.
We're going to get some "heavy hitters" to "weigh in" on this one!

5/25/2002 11:41:09 PM

Puyallup, WA

While my Phd friend was not able to give me the lastest info on "phytochromes", this article will explain that the
the "book is still out" on the effect of certain wavelengths of light effecting fruit growth.

Phytochromes are soluble plant photoreceptors that regulate a wide array of developmental processes including light-mediated fruit ripening in UC82B tomatoes (recently redesignated Solanum lycopersicum L.). We have established that UC82B fruit ripen faster in the light and that this light-mediated fruit ripening is modulated by phytochromes. Harvested mature green UC82B fruit receiving no light other than 5 min of red light (R) per day synthesize both the red pigment lycopene and the ripening hormone ethylene earlier than equivalent fruit ripened in total darkness. This R-induced stimulation of fruit ripening is reversed by a subsequent 15-min treatment with far-red light (FR). Fruit compression analyses with R- and R/FR-treated UC82B fruit reveal that fruit softening is not modulated by phytochromes. Collectively, these data indicate that phytochromes modulate only specific components of the tomato fruit ripening process. Three observations imply that phytochrome A plays a key role in this phytochrome-modulated response: 1) mRNA encoding phytochrome A apoprotein dramatically increases in tomato fruit during ripening, 2) fruits from a transgenic over-expressor of phytochrome A ripen faster than their wild-type counterparts, and 3) mutants deficient in phytochrome A produce smaller fruits than their wild-type counterparts. We now aim to determine whether other phytochrome subfamilies are also involved in phytochrome-modulated tomato fruit ripening. This work was supported by the NSF (IBN-9630195).

Hope that was "deep" enough for you!

5/26/2002 12:56:27 AM

Pulaski Tn [email protected]

what??

5/26/2002 11:12:19 AM

Topsfield, Ma.

yeah, I knew that...LOL ! Stan, who's tendin' the patch while you're in the laboratory ?

5/26/2002 6:35:08 PM

Deer Park WA

Ouch.... Stan bro your making my head hurt, and I work with those "vegheads" every day at the University. What the folks in the labs are saying is that there is a definate coralation between light wavelength refraction, and plant growth. Like Dave Stelts said, wheres the Orange tarps??? Lets check it out.

Gadberry........

5/27/2002 1:41:22 AM

Deer Park WA

Oh Ya, There is also an entirely different debate that needs addressed regaurding chemical Noxious/symbionic plant warfare. Think alergys and you will have a start to the next thread...

5/27/2002 1:55:22 AM