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Joliet, IL

has anyone ever had a split into the cavity heal with
plugging or captan paste before? i would tend to think that
once that seal is broken it is over. i just was curious
if the interior pumpkin flesh will grow over and heal
the split if the outside of the cracks were plugged.
i took a piece of straw and slid it threw both 1/2 inch
splits on each side of my blossum with no resistance so
i know for sure air made it into the cavity. i am
considering this pumpkin done, but it still grew 12 pounds
with the plugged splits since yesterday and is
142+93+90 for an estimated weight of 691.

second question. will the seeds continue to mature if i
keep the cracks plugged? i am hoping that by today on
day 48 that the seeds are close to maturity. i am going to let it grow until it quits with the plugs, then have it
weighed locally and unofficially for my own curiosity,
and then harvest the seeds.

any past experiences with splits and seed maturation
with a split pumpkin are greatly appreciated.

what is the average day of pumpkin growth until seeds are mature also?

8/5/2004 4:18:22 PM

Ohio

SHAZZY, I read in a diary somewhere, cant think off hand whos is was, might be tillers in 2002 or 03 not sure, but I have heard that people will take another piece off another pumpkin and skin graft it in so to say, I think it said something like it would heal together, Also the guy cut it open after the season was over and said he couldnt hardly tell where he pieced it from the inside. Its almost like mending a broken tree branch, after it heals u have a big not there. I dont know if this would work but i would try it if it where me.

8/5/2004 4:36:39 PM

Ohio

Shazzy, one more thing, I just opened one of my pumpkins today that rotted from the stem end, inside where it was rotting the seeds rotted too.Any where inside the pumpkin that was brown including the seeds was rotten, and the part inside where it wasnt rotting yet they was fine.
Brooks

8/5/2004 4:41:46 PM

Joliet, IL

thanks brooks for the info. i also just read
len stellpflug's article on pumpkin crack healing
and i will try the combo of some fresh pumpkin flesh
from a cull and some sap from my other pumpkin's
oozing on its surface cracking and then apply some captan
on top of that and see what happens. just another science
experiment to fool around with. it can't hurt that is for
sure. i will see how it it works and report it in my diary
either way.

8/5/2004 5:04:03 PM

Garden State Pumpkins

air in the cavity its over...seeds mature before 50 possibly....good luck!

8/5/2004 5:05:07 PM