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Post by garrett on Jun 10, 2012 9:30:13 GMT -5
i've planted as late as august...smiles
its a gamble.good luck ds
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Jun 10, 2012 9:55:13 GMT -5
i've planted as late as august...smiles its a gamble.good luck ds It's the Great Christmas Punkin Charlie Brown  |
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Post by directsunlight on Jun 10, 2012 22:27:24 GMT -5
Planting now for this fall? Musquee's date to maturity is 120 days and butternut's is only about 90. I guess the difference would matter if you are in north Texas. That's what I meant, planting in a couple of weeks. I remember that the butternuts handled the extreme heat better, but once the calendar turns to fall the other has the advantage. I found a strawberry plant with a squash bug on the fruit today. There aren't any squash so it has to hunt for something to eat. Pathetic, isn't it?  |
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Post by directsunlight on Jun 10, 2012 22:29:43 GMT -5
i've planted as late as august...smiles its a gamble.good luck ds It's the Great Christmas Punkin Charlie Brown I did try planting at the first of August one year. The plant grew about 6 feet long and produced one pumpkin a bit bigger than a softball. I brought it inside and at that time my one year old thought it was a ball. He threw it in the kitchen and splattered it, right as we were about to leave to go out of town for Thanksgiving. |
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Post by txdirtdog on Jun 10, 2012 22:34:25 GMT -5
Lousy buggers do have their preferences. One year it was the watermelon patch. Other times it has been the squash. This year they have spent all their time with the leaf-foots and the shield shaped stink bugs in the mater patch and I've only found a couple on squash - none on melons.
I just sowed some left-over Blue Hubbard and Honeyboat Delicata seeds in spots where other winter squash plants went bye-bye. I really don't expect to get anything out of them (due to bugs, time should be fine), but haven't seen any SVB moths in several days and maybe when they return, it'll keep them off the moschatas.... Yeah, right.
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Post by coffeebreak on Jun 13, 2012 9:11:03 GMT -5
Started some more pumpkin for Fall these Sugar pie.Amish pie. more red warty.Howden, and Queensland blue which has not came up as of yet Charles  |
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Post by garrett on Jun 13, 2012 9:31:56 GMT -5
rock and roll.lol
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Jun 13, 2012 17:09:24 GMT -5
Good for You, Charles. Hope the QB comes up, they are one of my faves.
I have new ones germinating as well. 3 Jaune Gros de Paris, 2 TN Vining and 1 unknown. Well, that's not entirely true. I planted 4 varieties of pumpkin at the school greenhouse and after all the seedlings were taken away, I dumped the starter mix from no-show germinations back onto the potting table. A week later I went in to clean up and close up for the summer and there was a 6 inch tall Punkin Plant which I brought home with me. I soaked it for 3 hours in the kitchen sink because it was looking rather dehydrated but 24 hours later it is growing like a bad weed and showing great promise! Maybe I'll have some punkins this year yet!
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Jun 13, 2012 21:08:24 GMT -5
Blue now you are going to have to guard the patch from slavering, starving, savage squirrels.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Jun 13, 2012 21:20:15 GMT -5
Paintman bought a wicked slingshot and he's purty durn good with it too  But of course, he's not here much of the time so I just go out and scare the stupid things to death, lol Believe me, they aren't starving. I pick up handfulls of peanut shells every day after they dine at the neighbours'. Grrrr |
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Post by coffeebreak on Jun 13, 2012 21:20:39 GMT -5
the hungry squirrels will say wow look at the size of that Walnut yummy let eat.
Charles
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Jun 13, 2012 21:26:32 GMT -5
Nah, they'll burp and say there is allways room for pumpkin pie!
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Post by coffeebreak on Jun 14, 2012 21:00:05 GMT -5
Lost another Pumpkin to the Pill Bugs it would have been a Red Warty So I got Pill Bugs and Tree rats AKA Squirrels eating my pumpkin why ??  Charles |
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Jun 14, 2012 21:38:21 GMT -5
I had pill bugs eating my stevia the other day and a couple of leaves on the armenian cukes.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Jun 15, 2012 8:10:14 GMT -5
Charles, in a drought in 2007?? the Chipmunks at holes in my pumpkins obviously looking for moisture.
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Post by txdirtdog on Jun 15, 2012 10:46:49 GMT -5
Sorry to see that Charles. I usually lose a few to pill bugs every year. It gets a little disheartening, but I chalk it up to part of the process. Maybe you could elevate the fruit on boards or something, but I'd be afraid that might damage them as well. Not sure even that would stop the pill bugs.
Squirrels, I've never really had a problem with, although one showed up this spring and my roof and fence are part of its path. Not sure it has done any damage in the garden yet.
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Post by LinFL on Jun 15, 2012 19:03:27 GMT -5
Don't know if it would work for pumpkins, but I had earwigs eating my cantaloupes and I elevated them on upside down plastic nursery pots. Earwig damage stopped (guess they wouldn't climb the pots).
Doesn't stop the furry critters from eating them, though.
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Post by coffeebreak on Jun 15, 2012 19:24:13 GMT -5
The red warty cross with the Cinderella is just about ready to pick  Charles |
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Post by garrett on Jun 15, 2012 20:25:19 GMT -5
i soooooooooooo need seeds.lol
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Post by garrett on Jun 15, 2012 20:26:06 GMT -5
one of the volunteer punkins is almost ready to pick.
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Post by coffeebreak on Jun 15, 2012 22:02:59 GMT -5
Here are a few of my Crosses 1st one is a New England sugar pie cross with the red warty  2nd one is a red warty cross with Castilla it a long island type pumpkin from Mexico  3rd is a Cinderella cross with the red warty  Charles |
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Post by garrett on Jun 17, 2012 9:04:36 GMT -5
grow dem punkins.lol
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Post by coffeebreak on Jun 17, 2012 17:38:03 GMT -5
Today I play mad scientist I made a cross with 4 Different varieties of pollen don't know
what I will get but it will be strange come next year.
Charles
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Post by annclaire on Jun 17, 2012 21:40:17 GMT -5
MMMWWWAAAAHHHHAAAHHHAAA I got punkin! The only thing that was available was ... wait for it ... Amish Pie that is supposed to weigh in at 50####  I am still considering starting some of the Sugar Pie seed I found a week ago  Heres' the monster:  Those leaves are as big as a basketball! |
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Post by coffeebreak on Jun 24, 2012 15:34:24 GMT -5
Don't know what I will get from this cross but it should be fun Cross an all white Female with a Red warty male  Charles |
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Jun 26, 2012 17:07:08 GMT -5
I have a teensy Weensy little Red Kuri squash!!! I'm sooooo stoked over this!! After all the trouble I've had raising plants here, I finally have a fruit of my labour, YeeeHaw!
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Post by annclaire on Jun 26, 2012 17:41:01 GMT -5
CONGRATULATIONS BLR!!!! Where's the photos?  ;D |
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Post by coffeebreak on Jun 26, 2012 19:32:07 GMT -5
Lace i hate to be the bearer of bad news but now that you made that post the Squirrels
Will come.
Charles
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Post by garrett on Jun 27, 2012 9:27:46 GMT -5
lol at ac's monster.
cb stalking yer crosses.lol.smiles
awesome laey.that red punkin am good.pretty too.
you guys grow dem punkins
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Post by LinFL on Jun 27, 2012 12:29:58 GMT -5
Hmm, I have l'il pumpkin sprouts getting their first couple of true leaves. Does that count yet? |
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But of course, he's not here much of the time so I just go out and scare the stupid things to death, lol
;D