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Sunday, August 12, 2018
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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Peggy's plant is 24' x 36' wide. 850 ft approx. But she is only gonna weigh 800-1200 at most... which equals 1.0 to 1.5 lb per sq ft... Very low conversion rate of plant to pumpkin. A couple of the outer secondaries wrapped around from the back to the front... They are 30+ ft long still trying hard to set pumpkins... I think these are doing their own thing & not contributing to Peggy.
In hindsight, either 1) not getting good conversion efficiency from the size of the plant into the growth of the fruit or 2) the fruit is genetically where it wants to be size-wise... the growth of the fruit itself is maxed out.
I think I'm getting only about half the "pumpkin potential" out of this plant.
I desire to do better next year.
But I can't complain. She is 51 days old and a pb. Lookin' good.
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