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Saturday, October 09, 2010
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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this year in my prime honey hole i grew a 364 ott pumpkin that went 20% heavy. in the same exact spot last year i grew the 1385 that produced my 1173 shenoha 2009 that went 13% light and was 403" ott. a 39" difference in ott and the 1209 went 36 lbs heavier. with the 873 naylor 2009 weighing 24% heavy and it's pollinator plant produced a 24% heavy, i had a strong feeling the heavy genes would carry over. i had dreamed of 20%, but would have been very happy at 15% heavy or better as expected. i talked with chris stevens at our weigh off about the first 4" of dense orange flesh in the 1041 genes like nothing i have ever seen before. like comparing a 4" cube of bass wood and a 4" cube of oak. density. wall thickness is one thing, but that dense stringy flesh i believe is a genetic characteristic of some lines. i have used a soil measuring device measures pounds per square feet. it is not made for this usage but i can gauge some pumpkin flesh and compare to others at different inch intervals from the outside surface inward. the heavier percent pumpkins have higher psf resistance further into the center and the first for inches of the 1147 shenoha were very firm, dense and darker orange. you can see what i mean in this pic.
http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=98952
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