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Bloomington, IN USA

I ordinarily watch my plant pretty closely & trim tertiaries, blossoms & babies promptly.
However, I missed a baby back in a corner where I still had some windfence & it was not small.
When I pulled it out, out of curiosity I weighed it...54 lb.
My keeper on that plant is over 1,300 lb.
My question is, how much weight did I allow that baby to steal from my biggie?
Any opinions?

9/4/2018 3:02:12 PM

Grittyville, WA

After growing a large healthy plant but having a pumpkin only on track to hit 1,000... I think focusing the resources and energy is a big part of getting them big. My vote is 54 lbs.

9/4/2018 4:28:20 PM

Grittyville, WA

To explain... I damaged a lot of leaves early and decided to let my plant fill in, and left all the tertiaries. Basically a big unpruned mess. My feeling is that all the excessive growth that was far away from the pumpkin cost me lbs. It was less effort though... so I had time to get the watering and fertilizing right. Its was a trade off.

9/4/2018 4:38:01 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

Big one is gonna go heavy anyways and you won’t care in the long run, plus now you’ve got an extra 54lb porch pumpkin.

9/4/2018 5:18:17 PM

Walhalla, ND.

I’m trying something new this year. I’ve recently pollinated a new kin on each plant, I may let them grow for awhile. My thoughts are that maybe the plants will think they’ve still have some growing to do and up it a notch. I’m all into experimenting.

9/4/2018 5:25:19 PM

Colorado

Prob. cost you very little weight if any at all.

9/4/2018 5:53:06 PM

Georgia

I am with cojoe. It certainly did not cost you a world record. :-) Though, you would have set the State record for Georgia at a little over 1300.

9/4/2018 6:39:26 PM