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Nova Scotia

i was curiouse to know of all the different products people use in their pumpkin growing (ones you like), such as superthrive, megagro, neptunes ect... and were they get them (website). for i know many people out there know of things i don't and i would like to try the best one's.

12/17/2003 1:42:52 PM

Utah

horse manure- from a guy a few miles away- he delivers it for free. :)
I don't use hormones.
I have used Ironite - but am looking into a Azomite - mined in Utah... maybe I can't go get some myself.

12/17/2003 2:17:52 PM

Utah

http://www.azomite.com/main/New_typical_analysis.htm

12/17/2003 2:29:48 PM

Key West, FL

preseason soil prep

12/17/2003 3:17:03 PM

Nova Scotia

I use seaweed off the beach good stuff

12/17/2003 3:32:13 PM

Nova Scotia

yah Ben i want to get a few good florial feeding products befor i start my real season in march. i would like as well a good molassas supplier. bio activators ect... as far as what i have is seaweed, treated septic wast, some compost and ashes.

12/17/2003 3:58:28 PM

Kenyon, Mn.

C'mon folks, I'm sure Mr. T and myself aren't the only folks to use these types of additives, I have heard many things used by the local pumpkin growers that are far more questionable than megagrow, superthrive and the like, hell even a couple boys out there stealin' their womans birth control pills, now aren't they!

12/17/2003 5:37:29 PM

Itzetown City

Nothing works like u235 and heavy water, but its very hard to get that stuff.

12/18/2003 7:17:29 AM

Nova Scotia

good one Einstien

12/18/2003 11:36:32 AM

Ontario, Canada.

Yellow leaf problems caused me to use a product called Iron Green by Schultz 8-0-0.
http://www.schultz.com/irongreen.htm

12/18/2003 12:33:31 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

I read somewhere about Snow containing HEAVY WATER. So I decided to do a search. Heres what I came up with so get out your water containers. I dont know how much validity I would hold to this though.
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Experiments carried out in the Siberian Botanical Garden showed that cucumbers and radishes, watered with melted snow, grew twice as fast as the control plants watered with ordinary water. Similar results occurred in experiments with wheat.

Why is melted snow better for plants than ordinary water? Snow contains about 40 percent less heavy water or deuterium oxide than normal water. Deuterium (symbol of D) is a heavy isotope a form of hydrogen, but slightly different. When combined with oxygen it does not form the water molecule, H2O; instead the molecule D2O is formed. Normally, about one water molecule in every 6,000 is found to be a heavy water molecule. But somehow the formation of snow removes many of these heavy water molecules.

Scientists have discovered that D2O slows down some chemical and biological processes. So, when heavy water molecules are removed, plants seem to grow faster.

12/18/2003 5:08:47 PM

Eugene, OR

I've also heard that snow contains just a little nitrogen. Is this true?

12/18/2003 5:18:23 PM

[email protected]

It's true.

Our lower atmosphere is 70% Nitrogen in forms not available to plants. But snow fixes Nitrogen on it's journey & carries some soluble Nitrogen to the soil. Actual amounts vary tremendously. But if the atmospheres ionic charge is right & significant snow accumulates, some storm events are thought to deliver as much as 60 lbs Nitrogen per Acre. That's quite a bit, but parts of California claim to have measured as much as 80 lbs/Acre.

Electrical storms also liberate a lot of Nitrogen.

Steve

12/18/2003 7:17:30 PM

Eugene, OR

Hmmm, interesting. It must be cold enough in the clouds to turn the gaseous Nitrogen into a liquid which then gets combined with the snow flakes?!? Anyone got a phase table for Nitrogen?

12/18/2003 7:35:36 PM

Indiana

so when the sonw melts does it wash most of the nitrogen away?
Steve

12/18/2003 7:53:35 PM

Eugene, OR

Could that be why some of the Amish till their fields in the snow?

12/18/2003 7:55:44 PM

Montoursville, PA

The Amish till the snow cause their kids and wives claim hardships picking worms barefooted in snow. Good worms are $4.50 a dozen. How's that for a naturally renewed resource.

12/19/2003 12:04:21 PM