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never give up .do what you can keep plants going tonight- its 4th down inches to go- you cant just take a knee and head to locker room now-last few weeks ahead can make a real diffrence

9/15/2007 1:06:23 AM

Wood River, IL ([email protected])

never give up! GO DON GO

9/15/2007 3:37:41 AM

Midwest

It's over here......23deg and falling

9/15/2007 7:41:41 AM

Rhode Island

ah september ---- all the dreams of july and august can vanish faster than a fart in the wind. sure it stinks for a short while, but then theres that great feeling you had early on- lol pap

9/15/2007 8:49:01 AM

Midwest

Yea Pap...real funny when guys get froze out aint it !!

9/15/2007 8:59:32 AM

Anamosa, IA [email protected]

We had a hard freeze in Anamosa. No more growth on the gourds or watermelons now. I hope everyone in the area was able to protect their best plants.

9/15/2007 9:48:41 AM

[email protected]

Salamanders, smudge pots, tarps, blankets, space heaters, light misting, whatever it takes. Heck - offer the huts to the homeless so as to borrow their body heat. LOL

If you're like Don Young today & you're still in it to win you might even ask for devine intervention.

You go Don!

9/15/2007 10:37:27 AM

Long Island,New York

Don's pkn is so big it has its own atmosphere with global warming anyway...no worries in don's patch

9/15/2007 11:41:43 AM

Minnesota([email protected])

Had frost here in MN. Covered both plants with tarps. One plant faired pretty good, the other has damage on the leaf edges, even when it was covered with a tarp. Those leaves that weren't covered are mostly done for.

9/15/2007 12:12:54 PM

Rhode Island

CLANCY

YOU HAVE NOT BEEN AROUND LONG ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND ANYTHING IM WRITING. HUMOR CAN BE FOUND IN ANYTHING IF YOU LOOK HARD ENOUGH. BESIDES ITS NOT LIFE AND DEAth now is it.

DONT TAKE YOURSELF TO SERIOUSLY UNTIL YOU KNOW WHO and what YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT

9/15/2007 2:20:24 PM

Rhode Island

oh by the way a one night frost can be controled by misting or watering over head every few hrs

9/15/2007 2:22:28 PM

No Place Special

Don did the misting last nite take care of your frost concerns? Hope all is well!!!!!

9/15/2007 2:28:05 PM

Boulder County Colorado USA planet Earth

Tarps tarps and more tarps, Thats what I do.

9/15/2007 3:11:33 PM

Wi

We had a good old fashioned freeze. 25.5 on my digital at 6:30 this morning. Brrr. I wonder how cold it got in the snowmobile capital of the world? I bet there was some midnight oil burned there last night....heh heh.

9/15/2007 5:00:29 PM

[email protected]

I don't know what the big deal is, we had temps in the 20's in August. Actually we expect it and deal with it.
Feel for you guys that couldn't cover them all
Eddy

9/15/2007 5:05:07 PM

Eddy I agree,, you do have to "deal" with it,,

Chris it was 27F here and yes we burned some midnight oil, some propane, and some KWH's,,

Dick,, Clarence is a competitor, grew a WI state record of 1049 in '02 (pretty huge fruit at the time) he's been around 10 years and does know "who" you are.

He had his best year ever going in the patch until yesterday, pretty hard to find any humor or "lol" in that when the plants all drop from a hit from "mother" and 3 weeks until the weighoffs. He ran his overheads as you seem to have suggested, it doesn't work at the temps we saw last night, once they ice you're done. He's a family man with a heavy work schedule and basically didn't have the time to build the necessary structures that would have saved him. He'll be back helping growers and making decisions where to take the fruit he has. Watch for the results then you might understand the frustration.

9/15/2007 7:44:49 PM

Rhode Island

not really concerned with his flustration or yours either for that matter dan. i took offence to his remark and replied accordingly. no big deal either way

no one has experienced any more late season failures that we have here in greene rhode island.

we just choose to deal with it and move on. we dont need to tell anyone what we might have done. better to wait until you actually do it

no hard feeling on my part just standing up for myself

9/15/2007 8:42:25 PM

lol

9/15/2007 8:56:49 PM

Rapid City, SD

wow, i am with you dan......well put......one puts all that time and effort into getting the most out of the fruit......then bam......mother nature can show it's ugly side........most of us don't have the luxury of growing many plants and growing the top seeds.........so we try to beat out mother nature.......if the battle is lost, at least one could say that the battle was fought with everything one could do under the circumtances

9/15/2007 9:35:16 PM

Midwest

Pap..you took offence to my remark the same way I took offence to your remark....just standing up for myself as well...no hard feeling on my part

9/15/2007 10:20:25 PM

[email protected]

Kids this is a hobby and supposed to be fun, lets relax and play nice.

9/15/2007 10:46:25 PM

Baildon, Saskatchewan, Canada , EH

Unbelieveable!!!!!!!

9/16/2007 1:48:33 AM

Colo.Spgs.CO. Pikes Peak Chapter @ [email protected]

If all you guys lived in Colorado on the list that are complaining then you would really have something to complain about if you tried growing here at high elevation. I bet all of us seasoned growers here could be turning in records at lower elevations. Well I hope to see a couple of good ones come out of Colorado this season With stunning results, They are not mine though, and I am not whining, as it may not be my year, but maybe the next one will be, and the hobby is all about fun, as it is supposed to be. Growing at over 6000 Ft. Elevation can be a pain in the rear. Just remember there is always someone out there that will have worse conditions than what you think you have, depending on the year. Happy growing all, and let's have fun weighing them.....JK

9/16/2007 3:59:37 AM

Bristol,RI,USA.

i have been up for four days, 136 pots of coffee, and three boxes of nodose. took me five hours to climb the tower i sit in undetected. and form here i can see to california or the uk in the other direction. growers say the word and the weather man that sends the cold in your direction gets it !!!!!! and they will never here it coming. lol lighen up guys if my big pumpkin downs i will make pie

Calcubit

9/17/2007 11:16:46 AM