Too Much Water?
I have the giants (and field pumpkins, okra, tomatoes, etc.) on a drip system that runs every morning so I keep a consistent water profile. However, this month (after the 6th) has been very wet. Another 1.58" fell Sunday evening/night. The soil is saturated. Now I fear that this water logged soil is now compacted (it has a fair amount of clay) and is "choking" the massive root system of the giant pumpkins. It's also been overcast the past few days. A week ago in that post (read it by clicking here ), the pumpkin on the 1257 plant was ~ 39 pounds at DAP13. With the rapid and exponentially increasing weight gain, I thought there was a chance that the pumpkin would be as high as 160 pounds as of this morning (DAP20). But, it looks like it has slowed down on growth (hopefully temporary). This morning the estimated weight was 119 pounds. That is now behind the weight of the state fair 542.5 pound pumpkin from 3 years ago. Here is the picture of the 1257 pump