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Monday, July 19, 2010
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Billium frm Massillon
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Navarre,OH
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Well good news for me...I hope. Been doctoring the marrows alot lately. The smaller plant is growing very well. The main vine is growing right through my compost pile and has rooted two or three nodes into it. Vine has been growing crazy ever since is climbed into the compost. Going to have two to pollinate on the small marrow. Yay! Onto the big plant. The main vine has reached to almost 50ft....no thats not a typo...50ft LOL Its circling the outside of half my garden. The good news is there is a good sized female at the(about) 44' mark and another 2 leaf nodes further from that one I hope to get one of these girls to set concidering all the rooting thats behind it. 40+ feet of vine to feed it if it takes. Both marrows are doing quite better. They have got a dose of CO2 applied via foliar, some good ole 0-0-50 worked into the dirt around the stump and the dirt around the vine about 5ft away from the stump and LOTS of compost tea drenches. The way the plants are doing now after all the compost tea I'm starting to think all these aborts were mainly caused by all the nutrients being washed out of the soil after all the crazy rain we had in the beginning of the year. Please ohhhhhhh please let one of these take!
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