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Connecticut

    This past spring I conducted a scientific study where I compared these three products from RTI and the results have been compiled and posted in a pdf file that is displayed as a slide show. I will admit the slides do contain a fair amount of words and not many ‘fun’ pictures but this is intended to be scientific.

    Please take your time when reading through it and I plan on being in bigpumpkins.com chat tomorrow (11/11/10) from 7-8pm EST to answer any questions so I can try and reduce the list of e-mails. As a way to try and select for questions about this study look for me in the “Featured Growers Chat” room.

    To see the slide show go to www.Team-Pumpkin.org (*Note* our auction will be held on Friday 11/19/10) and on the left you will see the ‘downloads’ tab. Click this and follow it to the link for the trial.

    I want to thank Neil for his recent suggestions and I hope to be able to run some follow-up studies this off-season. My space (and time) is not unlimited but I enjoy this work.

    All comments are welcome.

11/10/2010 8:39:06 PM

Connecticut

Just a few quick details:

    I did make sure to include pictures of the actual plants with a reference in between both sample pants so you can see the actual test subjects. There were 3 different species (all cucurbits) selected. The Atlantic Giants because that is what we are goring, field pumpkins as a ‘true’ pumpkin plant, and Table Ace (Acorn) squash because of its container/greenhouse friendly behavior.

    I also wanted to see what interactions may occur if any between the products and the all important ‘no treatment’ control gave me my 8 total treatments.

    Other details should be explained in the presentation, but comments and suggestions are encouraged.

11/10/2010 8:39:34 PM

Northern California Foothills

Field pumpkins and acorn squash are both cucurbita pepo so there were only two species tested.

11/10/2010 8:49:29 PM

New York

Not all field pumpkins are C. pepo... some are C. moschata.

11/10/2010 8:59:11 PM

New York

Though I think Matt might have meant cultivars instead of species.

11/10/2010 9:07:54 PM

Seattle, WA

Matt,

Can you tell me more about the myco product? Was there anything else in there besides endo? Was there trichoderma in there?

11/11/2010 5:08:56 PM

Connecticut

Hi Thad-

Here is a product information link:

http://xtreme-gardening.com/mykos/mykos-pure-fresh-alive/

Hope this answers your questions,

-Matt

11/11/2010 9:50:14 PM

Connecticut

I want to thank everyone who joined me for the information hour. Hope I was able to answer some of your questions.

It was also great to hear some of the "crazy questions" and ideas, you guys have me thinking...

11/11/2010 9:53:00 PM

nOVA sCOTIA

Don't forget mushroom compost!More research needed! Great Stuff.

11/11/2010 9:53:09 PM

Little-TON - Colorado

Matt,

Good Job on the testing and on the site....Will get with you soon to chat about some stuff.......

Great Job...

11/12/2010 6:32:39 AM