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Monday, September 08, 2008
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Windy Miller
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Oxford, UK
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The plants are both steadily growing but I think both are having problems and need a lot more care than I can give. The Raymont seems to have stalled completely and its quite small. It also got nibbled by a mouse or possibly slugs? The plant looks healthy though. The Payton is doing much better. I didn't record the pollonation date but I think it was around 26th July. The measurements I took are therefore:
22 days 32" circ
36 days 77lb OTT
41 days 89lb OTT
Its going steady but by no means heavyweight. Still its by far the biggest pumpkin I've evry grown and as such I'm very pleased. I'm quite concerned the plant is dying though as its turned really yellow and a lot of the leaves off the main vine have died. Its quite "skeleton" like. I haven't been able to feed with anything other than blood fish and bone sprinkled on the surface. I hope this hasn't had a negative effect?
The weather has been totally rubbish. Very wet almost continuosly and in the last few days a bit chilly too.
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