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Monday, July 08, 2024
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Garwolf
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Kutztown, PA
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The first few plants I grew went down to foamy stump. In fact my largest pumpkin to date, i.e. 1100 Lb. was grown on what was left of a foamy I amputated mid season. All of these plant were initial installed straight up in the ground and all ended up with some sort of rainbow, rollercoaster, or pea trap stump/crown. Last year I had four plants in the ground which all did well for most of the season but were killed by either residual use of round up, (operator error) or herbicide drift from the adjacent corn field. Even so, none had a foamy stump. Why? Well, I believe its because I put the young plants in the ground on an angle. I hadn't done that before, not thinking it was important. Doing so caused on the main vines to lay down virtually flat. Since I plant on slight mound that meant all of the excess water that might sit in a rainbow stump gravitates downward. I personally believe this remedies the foam stump problem. We'll see. The photo here is of a 2021 foamy from one of pee trap vines. Lost a nice 2365, 440 lb. pumpkin that year.
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