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Saturday, August 13, 2016
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Iowegian
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Anamosa, IA BPIowegian@aol.com
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I opened up the 1444 Halverson to save some seeds. The vine is diseased and will be pulled to get ready for the fall cover crop. The seeds should be good, quite a few were already germinating inside the pumpkin. The mother pumpkin was good enough to win the Howard Dill award, and this one has much better color. I self pollinated it and plan to cross it with my 1047.5 next year.
Speaking of the 1047.5, the smaller pumpkin is crawling along at 8# per day. It has stem issues and needs some scraping and sulfur. The other one gained 74# in the last 2 days, so it isn't suffering from having other one on the plant. It is at 507# now, so if it holds up it should be a decent pumpkin.
The 1818.5 is est. 967#, a 70# gain in 2 days. The 962.5 gained just 11 pounds in 2 days, but I won't panic yet. It might just be errors in measurements. It still looks healthy. Best watermelons are now est. 90# and 97#.
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