There's Always Next Year! - Updated 08/31/18
What a crappy and disappointing giant pumpkin growing season! Since 1992 there has never been so many VERY windy days! We are now up to 30 days of 50 MPH winds or higher. The previous record for the ENTIRE year was 26 days! There have been 80 (not a typo) days of 40 MPH winds or higher! That's almost once every 3 days! This past week it started out unseasonably cool and finished with a blow torch - near 100 and very windy! The entire season there have been weather challenges so the result for giant growth has been dismal, compared to what is needed. As I've said before, SW Kansas is just not a friendly place to grow Atlantic Giant Pumpkins! The biggest one I have at this point remains the pumpkin from the 1733 plant. This morning it measured at 322 pounds or a paltry gain of only 70 pounds in a week. Going from the cool to the blazing hot has probably set it in maturing mode. Here is that pumpkin.... The pumpkin on the 1522 plant appears to maturing as it has