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Saturday, August 20, 2016
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jimp
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Allentown, PA
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Came home after a week away and found dripping mush coming out of the stem of Gilbert, one of my better pumpkins. A mushy hole right at the connection to the fruit. Referred to Don Langevin's "How to Grow World Class Giant Pumpkins" pg 158 - "patching" I cleaned out the hole and made a paste of captan to fill it. Because there was a container of Sevin dust right next to the captan on the shelf - I added that too. Figgured "why not". Don says the stem will heal. Let's hope.
Biggest pumpkin est weight 403 today, but also had some stem mush and got the same treatment. Wiped all fruits with 10% bleach. First time, but shoulda been doing that weekly right along.
Finally - I was giving up on an orange pumpkin - everybody is yellow, when I found some tinges of orange around the stem end of Gilbert (the pictured repair job), now about 210 lbs. Yea!.
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