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What usally causes a pumpkin to rot from the inside.

Beside from stop growing and sitting on a vine for a year or two. Is there a desease that causes this? Or is it lack of calcium or potassium? I have had a pumpkin rot from the inside with no holes visable anywhere on the outside.I just dont want this to happen again if i can help it. I started a calcium soak late when my pumkin was around 400 pounds.(kinda to late right?)
Brooks

10/24/2004 11:43:46 PM

Ohio

Heres a pic of it.


http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=29090

10/24/2004 11:45:15 PM

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Somewhere there was a breach into the cavity & the pathogens that cause internal rot enetred through that breach.

10/25/2004 6:49:58 AM

Garden State Pumpkins

Check the stem area closely a pin hole will breach the cavity....those little shallow looking cracks go right through..

10/25/2004 7:41:31 AM

Ohio

Your right, never thought of that,I had little cracks at the stem that wasnt very big that I filled with captans. It first started getting soft about 10 inches right of the stem.Thanks!
Brooks

10/25/2004 10:05:27 AM

Ohio

Yanno, now that i think about it, I had to fill them little cracks twice, and thats about the time it stopped growing.

10/25/2004 10:09:32 AM

Ohio

Would it be a good idea to use silicone when them cracks first start, Like maybe fill them with captains first then apply silicone? I would have used silicon if I noticed the cracks was getting bigger.Or is this something only god controls.
Brooks

10/25/2004 10:18:11 AM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Once that seal is cracked. Then air is allowed in, the process of decomposition has started. Its Mother Nature that controls this :).

10/25/2004 11:41:23 AM