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It’s stickily hot :(
Maybe a few of the pumpkins might make it to ripeness after all.
These two are getting pretty chunky and changing colour fast. The faint striations on the first are even darkening to orange.
Others I remember hand pollinating and seeing as tiny forming green bumps are also fattening up into recognisable pumpkin shapes.
Longer ramble
The jack be little pumpkins seem so much faster to grow and fruit than the golden nuggets. They seem extremely fast growing compared to the other variety which haven’t even begun female flowers yet.But as a tradeoff the jack be little seem much more vulnerable to powdery mildew. They’re covered in it. I’ve almost emptied two bottles of eco fungicide and if I grew these again would buy a concentrate or see if I could source the chemical as a generic in bulk.
Edit: Ok it’s simply potassium bicarbonate which is legal as a supplement, effective as an antifungal, and can be bought generic in larger amounts at half the price. I just have to find somewhere reputable with a good deal.
Also the brand name concentrate could be cut with something so that would affect the concentration when diluting the pure stuff.
This has been an instructive practice run though.
If any make it to full ripeness and are nice and sweet I’m keeping at least one to puree for Melbcat.
Somehow the cherry tomatoes are still going and ripening. Tommy toes. They got a little bit of black spot which took some of the fungicide but bounce back well. I got a nice little supply of fruit from only four plants. Game little variety that I would plant again.