http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewBoard.asp?b=39 Last 25 Posts for the 'Discussion of Scientific Literature' message board. en-us Copyright &copy; 1999-2026 BigPumpkins.com. All rights reserved. info@bigpumpkins.com BP RSS FeedGen http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.bigpumpkins.com/images/newlogo_232x70.jpg http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/ Little Ketchup <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> I have done some investigation into hydrogen sulfide that suggests that elemental sulfer is better fertilizer than sulfate, even though plants use sulfate, the biological transformation of sulfer into... 3 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?756469 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=756469 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=756469 Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:06:41 GMT NDV <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> This really doesn't seem to be talked about enough on here. I know a grower who strongly advocated for Jadam Microbial Solution, and the company seems to have developed recipes for everything from pes... 5 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?754967 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=754967 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=754967 Sun, 04 May 2025 20:29:35 GMT jamieg <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> A paper was recently published called &quot;Bacteria That Cause Cucurbit Yellow Vine Disease Fall Within the Serratia ureilytica Species of the S. marcescens Complex and Can Be Vectored by Cucumber Be... 6 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?753800 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=753800 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=753800 Thu, 20 Mar 2025 23:07:28 GMT dale <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> Looking to see if anyone knows I pollinated the pumpkin I grew this season with another one I lost to a virus would the virus transfer through the pollen and be in the seed as did this cross obviousl... 10 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?750393 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=750393 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=750393 Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:43:29 GMT Little Ketchup <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> Pasture management: if you burn grass residue and lose that carbon (dioxide) to the atmosphere it increases the carbon in the soil. Say what??? 2 minus 1 = 3 ? This is impossible. Its so anti-in... 1 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?749926 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=749926 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=749926 Thu, 02 Jan 2025 05:59:47 GMT Little Ketchup <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> I was trying to figure out what this paramagnetism thing really is... The closest thing I can come up with is that it had to do with the availability of manganese. Some rocks should have more total m... 15 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?749648 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=749648 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=749648 Tue, 24 Dec 2024 21:43:45 GMT Little Ketchup <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> Could apply to melons perhaps, to some extent. Fancy way of concluding that maybe you can just mist the grafts, rather than use a high humidity chamber: https://journals.ashs.org/horttech/view/jou... 1 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?744525 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=744525 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=744525 Mon, 29 Jul 2024 15:45:41 GMT Little Ketchup <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> https://bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ppa.13642?af=R Its as good at controlling phytophthora, apparently. 5 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?743730 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=743730 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=743730 Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:06:54 GMT Sam H <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> Interesting short article. I think it may apply somewhat to Giant Pumpkins: https://johnkempf.com/managing-individual-leaf-size-rather-than-overall-crop-canopy/ 1 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?742221 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=742221 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=742221 Wed, 05 Jun 2024 08:50:26 GMT Little Ketchup <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> I was reading about bigmoons bushel gourds and he mentioned this about melons... melon xyz grafted onto melon xyz rootstock (its own self) do better. http://bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.as... 0 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?741984 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=741984 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=741984 Mon, 27 May 2024 21:15:31 GMT Big Kahuna 26 <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> Found and interesting white film last fall on our house plants after sprinkling a few coffee grounds on the soil surface. HUH come to learn the fungi is primarily a Trichoderma strain. 2 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?738374 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=738374 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=738374 Tue, 30 Jan 2024 06:46:02 GMT spudder <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> https://extension.unh.edu/resource/growing-vegetables-managing-blossom-end-rot-fact-sheet-0 1 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?732969 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=732969 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=732969 Thu, 03 Aug 2023 19:29:57 GMT Big Kahuna 26 <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> Building on Savage's Sink Source Relationship. Sieve tubes are the transporters of fluid into the stem and pumpkin. Seams to say &gt; Add plenty of K early on for a bigger stem. Thinking its Prolly wi... 4 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?730712 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=730712 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=730712 Wed, 12 Apr 2023 17:31:20 GMT Big Kahuna 26 <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> Last year was contacted by several growers about the early August cold front weather that shut down pumpkins all over the great lakes region... Planning early prevention for this right now. Believe tw... 2 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?730341 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=730341 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=730341 Sat, 25 Mar 2023 19:36:32 GMT Andy W <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> Been distracted with other things lately. https://phys.org/news/2023-02-strawberries-bland-pesticides-blame.html I think this hints as something well beyond just taste. 0 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?729894 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=729894 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=729894 Wed, 08 Mar 2023 20:00:59 GMT Little Ketchup <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> https://open.library.okstate.edu/rainorshine/chapter/9-2-preferential-flow/ I hadnt heard the term &quot;preferential flow&quot; before. But this is is a useful word/concept its similar to what ha... 1 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?729601 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=729601 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=729601 Mon, 27 Feb 2023 19:41:51 GMT Andy W <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> I've been slacking, sorry for the gap. Anyway... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1161030109000628 1 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?727697 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=727697 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=727697 Sat, 28 Jan 2023 20:05:51 GMT Andy W <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/researchers-transfer-human-protein-plants-supersize-them-180978443/ It's only a matter of time before this gets cheap enough.... 4 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?726485 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=726485 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=726485 Wed, 11 Jan 2023 14:46:58 GMT Andy W <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.18699 Make sure to click on the supporting info file. Cold stress as a mechanism for deformed fruit (in tomato). Tracks with what I've been se... 1 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?726095 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=726095 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=726095 Tue, 03 Jan 2023 20:29:26 GMT Andy W <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> On the effect of a cover crop: https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PBIOMES-04-21-0029-R 8 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?725531 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=725531 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=725531 Tue, 27 Dec 2022 15:37:13 GMT Andy W <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> Seeds matter, but maybe not the way we normally think: https://phys.org/news/2022-12-journey-generations-inheritance-microbiome-seed.html 17 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?725312 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=725312 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=725312 Mon, 19 Dec 2022 09:37:02 GMT Andy W <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> I'm going to try to post something here once a week. Things that I come across that I think are interesting. There may or may not be a theme, just things that you might like. Here's the first installm... 12 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?724959 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=724959 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=724959 Mon, 12 Dec 2022 14:49:15 GMT Little Ketchup <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> Cell division for fruit size: https://johnkempf.com/cell-division-for-fruit-size-and-quality/ Looks like good info. Research paper on tomatoes: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles... 4 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?721536 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=721536 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=721536 Tue, 30 Aug 2022 18:02:39 GMT Little Ketchup <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> This is really interesting, nitrogen increases transpiration in wet soils but decreases it in dry soil: https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-8137.1970.tb02439.x I've always... 2 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?720454 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=720454 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=720454 Thu, 28 Jul 2022 11:22:29 GMT Gerald UK <NoSpam@BigPumpkins.com> Looks like moon dust is on the list. Who'd have thought it? https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-03334-8 1 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/rss/messagepost.rss?718554 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=718554 http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=39&p=718554 Fri, 13 May 2022 08:38:53 GMT