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Sort of Sunny Sometimes, WA

Okay, well every season I have at least one dream about my pumpkin plants wake me up in a cold sweat. Last night I dreamt that I accidently raked up my plants that were the size of seedlings growing in an elevated barrell. All I could think of was now I wouldn't have any pollinators and how I was going to explain it in my grower diary (sheesh). Anybody else have pumpkin nightmares?

6/30/2009 8:28:29 PM

South Bloomfield, Ohio

My only pumpkin nightmares occur in the pumpkin patch while I'm fully awake.

6/30/2009 9:12:00 PM

Whidbey Island

Erin, I agree with GPD. My nightmare today was the 1385 female not open at 7 am when I went to work and it was wide open at 5 pm when I got home. Probably too late to take the pollen, but I tried anyway.

6/30/2009 9:31:01 PM

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If you can't call in late for work then there are sleep aids in pill & liquid forms.

6/30/2009 10:36:41 PM

you actually sleep during the season?

6/30/2009 10:43:53 PM

Rapid City, SD

hair dryer on the female flower and it will open in a couple minutes

6/30/2009 11:13:35 PM

Ohio

Whildbe,,, If that happens again and you know its gonna open, pry it open in the morning and still pollinate it. I been pollinating like that for years now. I pry mine open in the dark at about 5am before I go to work and pour the pollen in. Works like a charm, and about 90% of the time. This year Im 7 for 7 (knock on wood, have one more to go!,,lol)

7/1/2009 4:25:54 AM

Ohio

(5150), John,,,, This was before I weed eated all my plants to the ground, that is...,,lol

7/1/2009 4:27:31 AM

SE Minnesota

Brooks I thought no meant no:)

7/1/2009 5:19:32 AM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

Drag the extension cord and take a hair dryer to the patch. A warm air bath gets them up and at them!

Dreams, I rarely remember dreaming anymore.

7/1/2009 8:30:04 AM

Somers, CT

I keep having nightmares of PAP in a thong. I wake up in a cold sweat. Can anyone interpret.

7/1/2009 11:17:42 AM

Mulino, Oregon

Jake, I agree with Brooks, sometimes you have to 'pry' open the flowers. You'll know that the female is receptive if the pollen sticks to it. I too have to do all my work at 6:00 am before work. I pick my males the night before, put them in a glass of water at room temperature and the pollen is nice an fluffy the next morning.

7/1/2009 12:31:00 PM

Upstate S.C.

LOL, ROB, you been watching there video to much. Thats funny..

7/1/2009 2:20:34 PM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

Rob, obviously you're a lover of fur bearing mammals.. :)

7/1/2009 5:09:04 PM

Little-TON - Colorado

He's a maniac....maniac.....I see IceMan...Clad In Orange Spandex HEAD TO ToEz....doing the Big Bird .....over and over again........Hes a maniac,,,,,maniac,,,,challenged in the cold....ice in hiZ beard.......Over and Over...Again.......It wont go away....

7/2/2009 8:45:12 AM

Boulder County Colorado USA planet Earth

This yr is my nightmare.
It started out great, Awesome seeds(one which was my 35th b-day pressent) Started em the germed everything looked great. Then they got cold weather and dug up by idiots, even though i was able to get the plants back the roots were damaged but alive.. yep this is my season.

7/2/2009 8:53:13 AM

Eastern Washington State

CCW "...damaged but alive." Sometimes that fits me to a T!

7/2/2009 10:42:15 AM

Indiana

we call that rape here in the midwest......

7/2/2009 2:02:20 PM