Twenty pounds a day!
The last posting on July 4 (read it by clicking here ) the pumpkin plants were ALL vigorous and healthy. As of yesterday (8th) they continued to flourish. At this point all 4 plants have pollinated and growing pumpkins. The 1990 and 595 plants have 1 each; the 1989.5 has 3 pumpkins; and the 450 plant has 5 pumpkins pollinated and growing. Why so many on the two plants? I'm trying to determine which one to keep and need a few more days of growing to see which ones will stay and which ones will be aborted (culled). I'll be making that decision really soon. The winner plant so far is the 1990 Marintzer and its pumpkin was pollinated with the 1989.5 Deletas. That pumpkin as of yesterday (8th) was 21.5 days old (evening) and taped at about 150 pounds as seen in the picture below. On the 4th it was at 72 pounds. More importantly it is putting on 20 pounds a day for the last 3 days! But for me to be perfectly satisfied I would want to see a daily weight gain of 30 to 40 poun