Two Not So Giant Giants - Updated 08/17/18
A week ago I posted (read that by clicking here ) about some issues this growing season and that the pumpkin on the 1861 plant appeared to have aborted. Indeed that happened at around 38 pounds. I did notice this morning a pumpkin on that plant pollinated yesterday (open pollination and probably from the same plant) but I haven't looked through the jungle of vines to see if any more were out there. That's about six weeks too late. We'll see what happens. The 1522 plant is showing some disease in the leaves closer to the base but I've sprayed a few times and hopefully have the progression slowed. The pumpkin itself has had steady growth this past week but not really that great. It was measured at 152 pounds this morning and was at 85 pounds a week ago, so it is averaging a little less than 10 pounds a day. Nice but not impressive. I do like the color though as it is showing a lot of orange at this stage. Normally giants don't have a lot of orange - more ye