Let's talk pumpkins

Date sort Score sort
Mezzer

Mezzer

Songster
Jan 14, 2016
281
61
106
I grew this bad boy last summer. :) what's the best pumpkin you have grown?
400


400
 
Can't tell you yet as it's still just putting on flowers :). It came up in my old compost pile. Seems to be an awful lot of vine for not much in the way of fruit though. Is that normal?
 
appps said:
Can't tell you yet as it's still just putting on flowers :). It came up in my old compost pile. Seems to be an awful lot of vine for not much in the way of fruit though. Is that normal?
Click to expand...


Yes, it's normal. The first flowers are always male, when you get a flower that's female and looks healthy, clip the end of the vine off so it puts all it's energy into that one pumpkin. Also clip off all other pumpkin that try's to grow. :) doing all this will
Ensure that your pumpkin will grow big, if that's what you desire. Use a large pumpkin variety though, a pumpkin will only grow as large as it able to genetically able to do.
 
What steps did you take to get yours that large? Is that fence around it? How often did you water, fertilize, eTc?
 
Outpost JWB said:
What steps did you take to get yours that large? Is that fence around it? How often did you water, fertilize, eTc?
Click to expand...


I watered it every day when it was still
Small and flexible, and when it was larger and more prone to splitting I put a home made drip system on it so it got water everyday in small consistent amount. Same thing with fertilizer, lots when small, a little every 2 weeks when large. I also got a fishy seaweed organic type of liquid that I used to supplement the soil. That's a small fence over it, our summers are quite hot, which pumpkins love, but the sun on the skin of a rapidly growing pumpkin can cause it to harden up, which can lead to splitting. So I put a little fence up and a sheet on top to keep the sun off it in late summer when it was at it's large stage. I also clipped the end of the vine off so when I had a good pumpkin set so all it's energy would go to Chubby boy. (Yup, I named him. Lol)
 

Similar threads

N
    • Like
Pumpkin question #2...
Replies
4
Views
820
Acre4Me
Acre4Me
N
    • Like
Turning color of pumpkins, tomatoes, and other vegetables question?
2
Replies
10
Views
2K
Acre4Me
Acre4Me
21hens-incharge
Hey pumpkin peeps I need help!
2 3
Replies
25
Views
1K
SmiYa0126
SmiYa0126
N
Using stored pumpkins from overwinter?
Replies
3
Views
829
nao57
N
MountainMomma359
    • Like
Chicken poo/compost tea in the garden
Replies
7
Views
2K
Chris2018
Chris2018

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom