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Friday, July 12, 2024
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BlossomDown
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Gourd Zone, WA
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The 193 Sherwood plant.
I noticed that at 12 ' the plant switched to making gourds on all the secondaries. Before that I was only getting gourds on the tertiaries.
I did an uncontrolled pollination on the Brown bushel gourd, i.e. I mixed pollen from both plants. I probably should have done a controlled pollination.
Somehow I messed up the fertilizer and both plants are flush with too much potassium and nitrogen. Also, had to switch to non-organic on these. The main roots were getting sketchy so they got soaked in daconil.
Last of all, measuring the growth rates, they are growing about 4" per day which is both a nutrient and a cool dry climate issue. Thats haf the pace of Steve's plant. They might enjoy a hoophouse/ being under plastic. I have enough pvc, and a large enough sheet of plastic. I think I'll have to do this. Washington state just isnt tropical Africa, not even during the summer.
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