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Wednesday, June 12, 2019
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Matt D.
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Connecticut
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Outdoor 1989.5 dmg Daletas ’17
Only 4 Square feet behind my biggest pumpkin on this date in my last 19 years of growing! (In 2018 the 1367 VanHoutte ’16 held the record that ultimately went down to a bacterial disease in early August.) This plant has been great and growing aggressively with some side vines already terminated so the plant is a full 29ft wide. I also already have my chosen pumpkin so things are looking to be in good shape, at least today;-)
While it seems the standard for comparison this time of year is main vine length, I have had plants in the past that grow a great main vine but do not ‘fill-in’, so I developed the idea of Leaf Area Estimation which is basically the area of a triangle. (This works best for the standard Christmas Tree style of pruning.) All you have to do is measure the width of the plant and the length of the main vine. Then it is simply (1/2)*(width of the plant)*(main vine length) = Leaf Area Estimation.
Leaf Area Estimation= 333.5 square feet
Main Vine Length= 23 feet
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