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GULFPORT,MISSISSIPPI

Wise ones of the pumpkin patch, here is my dilema!!! I'm currently fertilizing with Peter's 20-20-20 once a week. I'm using the Peter's hose attachment with the cannister and the adjustable sprayer. What i've tried to do is use the "soaker"setting and just water around the vines at then really soak the hill where the plant comes out. The problem is that i've noticed the tips of some of the secondaries are "burning"(turning yellow,and growth on that secondary stops). What am i doing wrong? Am i somehow getting the solution on the new growth? I quit foliar feeding because i thought that was the cause. Surely the 20-20-20 isn't too strong. Please help me cause i do have some pumpkins set and i want to be able to feed them. I also notice aborts from many smaller females too. I'm lucky that my plants throw out females like beads at a Mardi Gras parade. Thank you o wise ones from the pumpkin patch!!!!!!

8/28/2002 9:38:23 PM

Key West, FL

i dont thinkk the fertilizer is doing that to the new growth. how hot is it there?

8/28/2002 9:59:56 PM

Garden State Pumpkins

How much watering is goinng on. After soaking is the soil just damp or is there any standing water...Overwatering can hurt the roots and ergo the plants. Do a check with a shovel dig down to see how far the water is penerating the soil..if the roots sit in water they will rot. the soil should be damp not wet squeezing a handful should stick together and push out a drop or two not much more. Chuck

8/28/2002 10:15:14 PM

North Ga

I agree with Chuck. Maybe too much water. I don't know.

8/28/2002 10:22:02 PM

GULFPORT,MISSISSIPPI

You guys may be right about the water.This has been one of the wettest summers that i can remember. It rains almost everyday,sometimes up to 2 inches a day.I have also noticed that one of my plants(the one in the low end of my patch) is now a lighter green in color.I checked the stump and found no rot and also uncovered the vine near the stump and found no rot or svb holes either. If too much water is the problem, how do i go about fertilizing my plants? Benface, the temps have been mild by Mississippi standards this year, only getting up to the low 90's.I have been mixing Daconil, Bug-B-gone, and a sysytemic insecticide together and spraying my plants in the evenings twice weekly.Thanks for any advice you can give!

8/29/2002 10:26:21 PM

North Ga

You could try using a granular fertilizer until your patch dries out a bit. Scatter it around and lightly scratch it under with a garden rake. Don't get any on the leaves because it might burn them. Just don't let it get too dry!

8/30/2002 10:17:54 AM

Garden State Pumpkins

Also don't know what type of soil but that much rain is surly leaching out the nitrogen lightening the leaves. You don't want them blue but I would try some dry blood around the ight green leaves to see if the pick back up.

8/30/2002 10:41:24 AM

Key West, FL

where do you get dried blood anyway?

8/30/2002 12:54:25 PM

South Hill, Virginia

You scrape it out of the carpet in OJ's Bronco.

8/30/2002 2:44:03 PM

North Ga

LMAO Rich!!!!

8/30/2002 2:50:05 PM

Key West, FL

where did that come?!!?

8/30/2002 6:57:27 PM

Yreka, CA

Ah Ben, you're making me feel so old lad! I guess it has been nearly a decade, and if you're only 20, then maybe OJ references are really "last generation"for you. Anyway, OJ Simpson's Ford Bronco had a lot of blood in it (You know who he is, right?) There was a lot of controversy about whether the blood got there because it was all over OJ himself, or if the helpful public servants of the LADP put it there later. I guess the jury weren't convinced that it wasn't the latter. Ah yes, justice in America!

9/1/2002 5:09:34 PM