{"id":8335,"date":"2019-10-09T17:12:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T21:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/?p=8335"},"modified":"2019-10-28T17:53:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T21:53:21","slug":"the-cuccap-extension-team-evaluates-pumpkin-varieties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/2019\/10\/09\/the-cuccap-extension-team-evaluates-pumpkin-varieties\/","title":{"rendered":"The CucCAP Extension Team evaluates Pumpkin Varieties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Schultheis Vegetable Production Lab in the Department of Horticultural Science at NC State University cooperates with extension researchers to evaluate pumpkin cultivars for yield and quality. Seed company representatives joined the Extension researchers in the field for the early September pumpkin harvest. In addition to yield and size, the pumpkins were rated for signs of powdery mildew symptoms. Postharvest scientists evaluated\u00a0pumpkins in storage for quality (decay, stem retention, rind color change, weight loss) relative to sprays with copper sulfate and 0.9% sodium hypochlorite.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-default btn-md\" href=\"https:\/\/cucurbits.ces.ncsu.edu\/2019\/10\/vegetable-extension-collaborate-pumpkin-variety-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ces.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/pumpkin-evaluations-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"balance next to pumpkin plots\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pumpkin cultigens included in this study were evaluated for yield and size. Each entry was also rated for shape, color, suturing, vine habit, handle characteristics, fruit size\u00a0 and powdery mildew symptoms.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Schultheis Vegetable Production Lab in the Department of Horticultural Science at NC State University cooperates with extension researchers to evaluate pumpkin cultivars for yield and quality. Seed company representatives joined the Extension researchers in the field for the early September pumpkin harvest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[136,196],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8335"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8335"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8376,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8335\/revisions\/8376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}