Still growing - update 09/15/18
After the cool and wet stretch we had, it's now been windy and hot again! It's never ending. The 1522 is still growing very slowly with a nice orange color. This morning it measured at 310 pounds. The 1733 is now "bleeding" at the pumpkin stem and will soon cease growing because of that. The vine is stretching and is causing it to stress at the stem and so it's splitting and oozing. If I was ambitious and had help, I could wrap it in straps and pull the pumpkin towards the vine to ease the stress. But I've got other things to do. This morning that pumpkin measured around 477 pounds. Once the first freeze takes care of the garden growing, I will attempt to get these guys out of the garden. I would like to find someone with a scale to weight at least the biggest one. Because of it's shape, the actual weight may be significantly different than the measured and thus it's estimated weight. It could be 5 to 10 percent either way (low or h