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Wednesday, November 07, 2018
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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Anna always picks good seeds! She came close to a pb on this one (1472.5 Sherwood) coming in at 541 lbs. A very good conversion of sq ft to pumpkin on this one, because the plant was small... it could have fit in 100 ft or so, it was sparsely spread over 120-140 ft.
I’m not sure why this one did so well.
It must have had good genetics, and it was entirely pruned... it had good leaf longevity, and it was pruned in the same manner as her 559 last year (main dead-ended except for one secondary past the blossom). This seems to be a foolproof way to get slightly better results on a small plant. I would not recommend this pruning scheme in attempting to get a full size AG pumpkin but it seems to give good results when space or resources are limited. But for small inadequate areas... it seems the energy and resources are balanced and perfectly focused on the pumpkin when they’re pruned this way.
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