More Dang Wind - BUT... Updated 07/04/18
A week ago (read that post by clicking here ) I discussed the ridiculous wind that has occurred this spring and early summer. Since that post we've had another two high wind events of 60 MPH plus! But, I didn't see much damage, thankfully. Also in that last post I discussed how far behind the growing is/was compared to last year. My original goal was to get the first pollination completed on the 1st of July. If I got a fruit set by July 15, I would have felt fortunate. Last year the state fair second place pumpkin was pollinated on July 8. We left on a trip to Colorado on June 29th and returned yesterday, the 3rd. I knew there was a female on the main vine of the 1733 plant but thought I had a least a week before it opened. The main vine it was on had/has issues as the tip shriveled up from the hot wind! Regardless, it looks like the pumpkin pollinated while we were gone, probably on the 2nd! Two issues though. 1) I don't know what male was the pollinator, al