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nOVA sCOTIA

as of today 90 pumpkins out of the top 100 have gone over the chart!!

10/10/2015 2:35:58 PM

Netherlands

There seem to be two reasons. One, the chart is a bit biased at the top end and two, that is the only way to get a pumpkin that big to the scales in one piece.

10/10/2015 2:42:32 PM

nOVA sCOTIA

so what is giving the thick walls Brad ??

10/10/2015 2:50:57 PM

Netherlands

Good question. It's not water. We had two pumpkins from waterlogged plants at the Dutch weigh-off. One went 20% light and the other 10%.
It seems to be more temperature related. The light ones seem to come from greenhouses and the heavier ones from outside in our country.

10/10/2015 2:53:13 PM

nOVA sCOTIA

well its pretty obvious from the results that the majority of the growing community have this % heavy thing dialed in.

10/10/2015 2:58:14 PM

Germany

Some people grow more pumpkins than they will take to a weigh-off, and I´m quite confident that out of the big ones grown the heavier ones will be the candidates favored for the ride to the weigh-off, whereas some of the light ones (even though pretty big) won´t appear in the list.

10/10/2015 4:00:18 PM

Eganville, Ontario

I'm no math guy but I know 1 inch in ott at 350 inches equals 8 pounds on the new chart. 1 inch at 500 ott also equals 8 pounds on the new chart. The pumpkin at 500 inches is putting on a helluva lot more weight than the pumpkin at 350 ott adding 1".


The weights are skewed and front loaded on the new chart. These Day 35 pumpkins are not putting on 50 pounds a day as the chart says, just as these late season monsters are putting on much more than 8 pounds on an inch.

Really it's just an estimator so who cares. However the team Pumpkin chart seems to be dead on and better weighted to the late season.

You have to have a really light pumpkin to weigh light or near estimates on the GPC chart if the fruit is large.

10/10/2015 6:15:20 PM

Colorado

The ones that don't go heavy weigh less and are located further down the resuts list

10/10/2015 7:00:53 PM

Lebanon, Oregon

El Nino

10/10/2015 7:08:50 PM

nOVA sCOTIA

Hey Brad. Josiah...+19% and +29% grown on the inside?

10/10/2015 7:49:56 PM

Citrus Heights, CA

Good one Joe. LOL

10/11/2015 12:02:16 AM

Ireland

I grow inside never had a kin go light on me, in saying that they were never wr so it probably doesnt matter

10/11/2015 3:10:22 AM

Central Minnesota

Lol good one Cojoe

10/11/2015 1:05:23 PM

Germany

Cojoe hasn´t been kidding, it´s pure maths. The OTT chart is designed to give the average weight for a particular OTT, now let´s assume you are looking at the pumpkins with the biggest OTT data, then you will find the heavy ones thereof somewhere on top of the list, whereas the light ones out of those with the largest OTT values will be further down in the list, some of them after other pumpkins which have less OTT but still went pretty heavy. In order to find out about a worse fit of the OTT curve for the heavier pumpkins you don´t have to look at the heaviest ones, you have to look at the pumpkins with the greatest OTT values and check how they are scattered around the OTT curve.

10/11/2015 3:17:10 PM

Colorado

I wasn't kidding it is statistical deviation. However the trend this year is over the chart.

10/11/2015 9:34:16 PM

Citrus Heights, CA

Pumpking, yeah and you will see my name by some of those airbags. Sigh. :)

10/11/2015 11:40:06 PM