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milford, CT,

I saw your post on your hail damaged plants..Realize you only have about 1% of the leaf canopy now..keep growing ...you will not even miss what ahs been damaged..Mark

6/19/2009 3:32:40 PM

Webster, NY

Check out this story about Joe Pukos, a few years back when hail damaged his plants.

http://www.pumpkinnook.com/commune/featpic3.htm

6/19/2009 6:49:52 PM

Midway, UT

Ask the Wiz about his plants 3 years ago. Nothing left but stems and three weeks later you would have never known it happened. My plant got hit by hail twice last year. After the second time I found this study and it gave me hope. The conclusion of the year long study is that pumpkin plants hit be hail early in the season had higher yields and higher average pumpkin weight.

http://www.cropinfo.net/AnnualReports/1995/hailexp.htm

6/19/2009 9:27:04 PM

If you don't get hail you can always run over the vines with a tractor ;-)

6/19/2009 9:49:24 PM