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Monday, June 23, 2025
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Matt D.
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Connecticut
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Pumpkin Day 10: F: 2154 Sperry '23 General Plant Overview
The plant is filling its allocated area and looks great. However, the more important aspect is the timing of the growth in relation to the area and the pumpkin stage of development. These two factors are probably more important than the "date". The goal is to have the plant fully filled in by time the pumpkin is around 25 days old. What can make this a challenge to predict is early on the plant is slowing growing (probably focusing more on root development) and then there is the exponential growth of the plant, but once the pumpkin starts growing there can be a slowdown in growth.
Supplementing with CO2 helps all aspects of the plant growth, but through research on pumpkins myself the carbon dioxide supplementation does not help directly with pumpkin growth only plant growth. This is why the CO2 enrichment is run until the pumpkin is about 20-30 days old to help it fill in the area.
However, the real reason for this picture is that this is the morning before the very hot weather. So, consider this the before picture to see how the plant will fair in the extreme heat.
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