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Cologne / Germany

Saw this one today on the BP.com random photo gallery:
http://www.bigpumpkins.com/DisplayPhoto.asp?pid=3156&gid=1
Did anyone see that Wallace plant/patch/fruit? Must have been 11ft x 11ft or something.
If this is true, many theories about plant size seem questionable or what?
Confused, Ingo

12/17/2004 6:59:39 PM

new middletown ohio

I saw it and its true! Probably should be a "special" seed to do this though. (very good
soil helps also)
raggu

12/17/2004 7:21:25 PM

Ri

its true!! dick is on the site often enough i am sure he will provide information peter

12/17/2004 7:44:32 PM

Key West, FL

Ron told me about it, it's true.

12/17/2004 7:45:08 PM

[email protected]

Ron & Dick explained the events to me. The vine started out normally & the fruit set in the normal way. Somehow they lost the main just behind the fruit which was at 100 lbs at the time. So a 10x12 area after the fruit was rooted & provided all the nenergy to grow the fruit to 919.6 lbs.

The 919.6 Wallace was weighed in on 9-22 at the Durham Fair where it placed first. The photo is here at BP under "Weigh-Offs"

The seed was 1068 Wallace '03.

12/17/2004 8:36:27 PM

Rhode Island

floh
everything mentioned above is true
after pulling the base and most of the main when the fruit was 100 lbs we were left with about three and one half ft of main ( and two sides ) before the fruit
we let the main after the fruit grow as much as it could and also left all secondaries off that portion of the main

all this proves is that the pumpkin can take all the nutrients necessary for growth ( backfeeding if you will )from where ever it is available to the root system

i do feel however that if that particular pumpkin had a full plant in front of it that it may very well have been something special

we will never know

12/18/2004 1:26:43 AM

Ohio

oh No doubt pap, that seed is already something special what you talkin bout,LOL

12/18/2004 1:40:04 AM

Cologne / Germany

Thanks for clearing it up everyone. I didn´t know it was pap´s plant, I read the story about the lost base before and was pretty impressed.

12/18/2004 5:42:01 AM

Greene R.I.

I stopped by paps almost everyday last season and just couldnt believe it!I had to laugh,it just kept growing with almost no plant before the pumpkin.Maybe 25 leaves!I will be putting in 2 1068 wallace seeds next season.the 845 x 898 cross could be the MAGIC cross were all looking for! Fred Macari

12/18/2004 10:14:24 AM

Ontario, Canada.

Sounds like this could be a good way of selfing a side vine fruit to continue a seed line or a way of maximizing space. Pollinate the heck out of your plants and then cut off the side vine on the ones you want to keep and let it grow with just locale vines without disturbing the main vine sink relationship.

12/18/2004 12:26:28 PM

[email protected]

Russ, This is what we did with the 842 Eaton this year. Selfed a secondary fruit for a porch sitter. Good thing too since the main vine fruit split.

12/18/2004 3:19:27 PM

Ontario, Canada.

My 356-04, 1301 Eaton x self was much the same condition Steve. The main part of the plant was pulled after a split caused the 812-04, 1301 Eaton x 709 McCallum to go down in early September. The 356 was left with only it side vine to supply it until harvest in October. The 1301 was a flag pattern that had three vines on the pole side of the vine in some additional space that I needed to use up. One observation of this technique was that the leaves became extremely large on the 356 vine section. I view this as an excellent way to gain additional fruit from the main plant.

12/18/2004 7:34:16 PM