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Waterville, Ohio

Turning to bigpumpkins.com to lick my wounds. What's your least favorite day? Mine would be August 13th,2014 coming home to an est. 1150 lbs fruit split down the blossom.
I will say the 1874.5 was quite a ride though!

8/13/2014 7:45:16 PM

Torrance, Ca.

It wasn't just one day but the whole season. Disease, disease and more disease........

My son has a 1874.5 going on the side yard on a horrible plant ( 6 year old growing skills ) but the thing is really starting to put on the weight! Its making my whole season enjoyable even though I lost all my plants.

I'll post a picture of him with it next weekend:)

8/13/2014 8:09:15 PM

Waterville, Ohio

Good luck So Cal! And sorry to hear about your season as well.

8/13/2014 8:52:57 PM

Central NY

Sorry guys... Bummer

8/13/2014 9:04:08 PM

Deal With It

For 2014, it was about four weeks ago, when I noticed that aphids had taken a firm hold in the Carolina Cross patch. However, like manna from heaven, mass quantities of ladybugs have arrived over the past three weeks, and have effectively eliminated the aphid situation.

8/13/2014 9:33:06 PM

Waterville, Ohio

Best pesticide out there!

8/13/2014 9:51:47 PM

Santa Rosa, CA.

August 24th - 26th 2007. Lost 3 pumpkins in 3 days, but I got over it and many other losses. It can be a cruel hobby

8/13/2014 11:06:39 PM

Torrance, Ca.

0-0-50 must of been your friend at the beginning of that week PatchMaster:)

8/13/2014 11:34:43 PM

Home of happy lil plants

Says over it....posts about it nearly 7 Years to the day later :)

8/14/2014 12:50:46 AM

Johnston, Iowa

Least favorite day - July 30th when I moved away from my two large country gardens to suburbia land with no garden

8/14/2014 1:30:30 PM

Anamosa, IA BPIowegian@aol.com

September 26, 2005. Jacob was 14 and had a pumpkin approaching 1000#. Weighoff organizer Greg Norlin sent the local newspaper reporter out to do a story for the issue just 5 days ahead of the weighoff. That was when we found a split in Jacob's pumpkin. I had a potential Howard Dill winner around 700# that split 3 days later. It left us with a couple of 300# to 400# pumpkins.

8/14/2014 3:47:14 PM

Midway, UT

This day: http://denverpumpkins.com/2009/07/pumpkin-season-is-done-for-me.html

8/14/2014 6:39:10 PM

Millville, UT

the week of july 21 this year both of my plants shut down due to virus. This is my 3rd year and I didn't realize how many folks in the neighborhood were looking forward to seeing the giant pumpkins. I have had so many people say how it won't be the same not seeing the big pumpkin in the yard. I have one about 350# that I hope hangs on through the fall but once you have had 1000# nothing else will due.

8/14/2014 6:44:37 PM

nOVA sCOTIA

lol @ spence !!

8/14/2014 8:09:08 PM

Yesterday was one of them... Always sucks to lose a pumpkin, but specially when you lose the best one in your patch. Not to mention losing 2 pumpkins out of 4 in two days. These are the days you say to yourself that you will keep year of next year, until the spring comes and... lol!

8/15/2014 12:54:59 AM

Waterville, Ohio

I remember that Arvada,
We didn't have that type of storm, but having 5" in 10hours after a summer long drought certainly wasn't ideal.

8/15/2014 12:16:40 PM

Mission Viejo, CA

My worst day is when Chris told me his kids pumpkin, growing on a broken down plant, was bigger than mine.

8/15/2014 5:10:53 PM

Tinykinville

lol my least favorite day is August.

8/16/2014 8:46:50 AM

Torrance, Ca.

That little bugger, he's got me whooped too Kevin!! lol

8/16/2014 9:59:49 AM