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Mill Bay, British Columbia

I was counting my secondaries and number of leaves (ah come on...we all do it) because years ago when I joined this madness, a big name well respected grower posted once that he figured "each leaf on the plant will give you 0-5 lbs of pumpkin in the end". So when I heard that I fugured I'd need a plant with at least 100 leaves to grow a 300-500 lb pumpkin...

This year 1 plant is roughly 20' x 30' or 600 sq ft and it has a leaf count of 450 leaves while my other plant has a smaller area and covers 15' x 20' or around 350 sq ft and has a leaf count of about 650 leaves.


How many leaves do you generally have on your plants and does anyone think this old theory is still valid?

7/22/2015 8:10:48 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

lol...your right Cecil we need an edit button...

Big plant has 650 leaves, small plant has 450 leaves.

7/22/2015 8:12:39 PM

East Jordan, MI

Honestly, I have never counted leaves...I'm from Arkansas and once I run out of fingers and toes, I lose count....lmao.

7/22/2015 8:51:23 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

Lol...well I use shortcut math and just count number of secondaries and then average number of leaves per secondary...

7/22/2015 8:57:53 PM

Eddyz@efirehose.net

So you count to 21 Cecil?? me too
I never count leaves either

7/22/2015 9:42:17 PM

Muddy Waters

Whos got time to count leafs,Im weeding my a$$ off

7/22/2015 10:10:32 PM

Torrance, Ca.

Now I need to go count leaves tomorrow,, thanks for giving me more work Glenn! Lol

7/22/2015 11:40:39 PM

BC, Canada

So Eddy
Does 21 involve using a zipper?
I'm just trying to improve my math here.
Glenn that is really over the top
(guess what I'll be doing tomorrow.)

7/23/2015 2:30:57 AM

Muddy Waters

I remember it was 4 lbs a leaf they figured back in 99

7/23/2015 5:55:42 AM

JACKSON, WISCONSIN. ; )

My count is ... The patch is full that has to be enough... I have so many leafs that when I water 300 gallons I feel only 150 gets to the ground.. I sure need to hook up zone number 2 soon.. Under canopy rotor system makes it rain.

7/23/2015 9:04:05 AM

Eddyz@efirehose.net

kinda depends on what your wearing but yes lol

7/23/2015 9:26:38 AM

Eastern Pennsylvania

I'm going out in my patch to cut 50% of the leaves off all my plants in order to align with my pumpkin's eventual weights.

7/23/2015 2:17:33 PM

Omaha, Ne.

lol

7/23/2015 8:41:06 PM

Midwest

lol

7/24/2015 4:10:02 PM

Stanwood, Washington

my 814.5 last year grown on 150 SF had 198 leaves (I counted them) so that is 4.11 pounds per leaf.

7/29/2015 6:05:22 PM