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Tuesday, September 16, 2025
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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I pulled the plant that grew the 10 lber.
Above: I inspected the rootzone and the planting hole to see if things looked good. The roots were very shallow and the plant did not make good use of the planting hole or the amendments under the plant. It was dry. Its probably been dry for months. The drip lines were nearby but they didn't deliver a large enough quantity of water, maybe it sunk in somewhere else or maybe I was underwatering. I really did make a lot of mistakes... the low boron plus this ineffective effort that did not give them a very good boost.
Below: I took a rooted section of the 10.06 plant and moved it into a pot. I tried to pull some side sprouts to do Scott's method but I noticed the vine architecture of this plant is not normal. None of the nodes wanted to break easily or cleanly. This might be a good trait to get better energy transport around/within the plant. It blew the other plants away AND it has this weird vine trait.
Coincidence? Anyhow, I dont want to babysit it for 6 months, but I will in the hopes of using it as a pollinator for '26.
This year I used a lot of pollen from last year's overwintered plants. It was good to have the extra pollen there were many, many days when I used up all of the extra flowers it was supplying. It never did produce any megas and frankly the soil out in the pumpkin patch is only halfway dialed in so it didnt produce any huge singles either, but hopefully it nevertheless passes on the genes to grow 10+ lbers. I am quite certain that the 8.68 plant last year could have grown a 10+ lber. But they are distinct lineages and one lineage may be better than the other, not sure.
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