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Saturday, August 14, 2021
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big moon
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Bethlehem CT
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The other disappointment came when I saw that the melon plant that was growing the "wide load" melon had a few sections collapse, Unfortunately the vine the fruit is on is on was one of the collapsed vines. I probably will leave the melon on the vine and bring it to our local fair in three weeks. The good news is that my best melon still has a fairly healthy plant. It was my weakest plant and always was a little behind in plant size. I wonder if that is a factor?
I can see why I am having stump problems. The stumps are ridiculously huge. Perhaps I was pushing them a little too hard with water and fertilizer. I think melon stump failures are sort of analogous to foaming stumps on pumpkins. Weak crappy Atlantic Giants don't turn into foamers. It will be your healthy most vigorous plants that get them. I don't get many foamers anymore as I am not pushing my AG plants too hard. I sprayed the two sick melon stumps and my remaining fairly healthy stump with a concentrated daconil to hopefully help them dry out a bit. If any melon growers are reading this and think they can offer some insight as to how to prevent stump issues please let me know, I would greatly appreciate it. The rootstock is a Bushel gourd x rampart gourd Chris Kent hybrid creation. This looks to be a really good rootstock to go with, based on what I have seen.
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