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Nova Scotia

saturday evening i did some overdue pruning and found a female on a side vine 8' out and 17' out the main. i could tell it just bloomed in the morning for it was near 100degrees all day and the flower though closed looked very new. i hope it takes and the bees did there job for the pumpkin under the blossum is the size of a tennis ball. it is no bigger yet but still shiney. has anyone seen a blossum this big befor for mine are barly the size of golf balls usually. i have to go with this one since no females will bloom on the main vine.

6/7/2004 9:11:04 AM

Ga.

Mr.T,,,I pollinated an 8 lobe like that..It took and is 115" cir right now...Good Luck with it..

6/7/2004 10:52:09 AM

Sequim, WA

Last year in Lincolns patch he had fruit the size of softballs under the open blossoms. They looked like they had been set for a week already. Unfortunately most of them blew up for him last year. I hope your results are better.

6/7/2004 1:26:44 PM

Nova Scotia

it's 4 day's old with a 16" circumfrence.

6/9/2004 9:39:05 AM