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Friday, July 21, 2017
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Dustin
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Morgantown, WV
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A clear example of how you will lose shape even with sand and mill fabric if your pumpkin is not manually adjusted from time to time. This was about two weeks after my neighbor broke the blossom off when I asked him to help me adjust it because it was getting too heavy to move myself (500ish). I got gunshy about adjusting it again, and it was still growing so had no choice but to swell over the top since it can't slide on its own. It never ended up a problem as I only hit 631 lbs, but you can imagine how quickly this gets exaggerated when you're able to gain 400 lbs in a month. I believe if you used two strips of mill fabric from the halfway point of the pumpkin past the blossom end, and also on top of a full sheet of mill fabric, the pumpkin would grab the two strips and push them out and apart, allowing for some movement, or at least an easier time sliding it forward... if I could only find some more mill fabric to try it out!
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