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Friday, August 18, 2023 pumpkinpal2 Syracuse, NY

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Well, I don't know about Howie Dewitt, butt this is how I'm doin' it this year
with the Blossom-Down, 'Got me over a barrel' Method.
Thanks to Little Kins for prompting me to do SOMETHING Blossom-Down and that was like 3 weeks ago or more.
At the time I had about 5 plants with no pollinations on them yet. This one on my 443 plant X Open just...presented itself
on a long, miscellaneous secondary and was like 'I ain't busy tonight...'
'Well, I have all these barrels that aren't busy either, and...'
Voi-Lah!!!
Roll out the barrel---
Funny as heck - I scanned around my back patch today and at first glance at this from the other side for once,
'What the...' "OH>>>It's the barrel. Ohhhhh"....lol----not another giant fruit, lol...
This is my second attempt on a different plant - the first one aborted, probably because there were
two others on the plant already (the double-vining 206.1, previously-pictured). eg
 



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