Is my 1000 pound goal reachable?
The blog posting on the 25th (read it here ), I had a pumpkin that was approaching my personal best weight. As of today that pumpkin has soared well past that size! The approximate weight (based on the estimating chart) was 755 pounds! It is showing just a bit of maturity but is still putting on ~ 13 pounds a day. I was hoping for a greater daily weight gain but "it is what it is". This is a new plot and I didn't have a soil test done so in a way I'm lucky to have it this big in the first place. Here was that pumpkin on the 1990 Marintzer plant this morning.... In my original giant pumpkin plot, the 1989.5 Deletas plant had a pumpkin on that split vine/stem. I previously posted about that issue. I taped it up (using electrical tape) and it seems to have made a difference. The pumpkin has been putting on about 17 pounds a day - again really low for a giant but I'm satisfied given the split stem. That particular pumpkin was the result of bee pollination b