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Who's planning on having mega huge patches next year or has one, or knows of having one. I plan on planting my seeds out of my 136 lbs out in an open spot in a forest. Hopefully the seed mold on them I can get rid of or won't effect them. Let me know how big some patches are. I'm going to count the number of seeds then I will let you know how many I'am planting this year!

1/11/2005 7:53:22 PM

I'am at 355 atlantic Giant Pumpkin Seeds that I will plant together to make one mega patch. Most of them out of my 136 lbs Pumpkin.

1/11/2005 8:32:00 PM

Picton,ON ([email protected])

My patch will be about 75' X 75' and am planning to grow 9 plants. Including my 721.5-04.

1/11/2005 10:25:43 PM

C N Y

kyle, what's the cross of the 136?
and, why you wanna plant so many?
unless, you just wanna sell 'em?

okay, two patches, one is 275' X 16'-20'.
the other is 50' X 70'.
big enuf for my 10-12 plants, which is toooooo many!!!

1/12/2005 12:13:59 AM

Garden

355 plants? Is that a record? That cant be right. I'd love to see your hoop houses

1/12/2005 12:59:41 AM

Walkerton Ont

im going with 10 right now, my patch is at least 160 x 30 for sure. I even thinking of buildign another patch for seeds i want to grow but have no room in the patch but still give them care but not as much as my competition plants

1/12/2005 4:54:13 AM

Berlin,mi.([email protected])

Im planning on 6 plants right now. I have about 3 acres that is worked for planting, but i don't have time to grow any more than 6. The area for giants is around a half acre.The rest will be howdens,hubbards and gourds that will be donated to schools and kids from baseball and soccer.
Steve

1/12/2005 6:44:31 AM

Ontario, Canada

i've got about 40' x 120' for about 5 atlantic giant and the rest with big max

1/12/2005 4:40:42 PM

[email protected]

Um......If we figure aabout 600 sq ft per plant so as to include room for vine tending & spraying (kind of important), then 355 plants will require 4.9 acres.

You got some labor issues in the future Kyle! You got a market for all those pumpkins?

1/12/2005 5:42:35 PM

Yah I know about size of area I need. But I don't plan to grow them big. My dad isn't giving me a lot of space on his farm so I can only focus on three or four of my best plants in a small area, these plants I will grow big or at least aim for that.
My 355 seeds I intend to plant I won't really take care of like what I will with the other ones. I plan to plant them probably most of them just seed right in the ground opposed to transplanting them. I plan to plant some around my dads farm by the river and ditches to keep weeds down. The rest I plan to make a mega patch In a forest next to my house. I won't plant them to be 600 sq ft per plant, they will just grow like farm pumpkins, Enough space so that they can grow and have aeration, but not comfortable space. The ground I found in the forest is slightly sloped and has a sparse population of trees with little to no growth on the bottom with out logs and fallen trees there.

1/12/2005 6:28:02 PM

Another thing about the seeds I have no record of their genetics. My biggest the 136lbs I have the most seeds out of so I refer to it the most. I got seeds from a garden shop called White Rose on Bankruptcy sale, for $2.49. They are called ATLANTIC GIANT PUMPKINS and on the picture the pumpkin was just as big as mine. So I don't know if there just a different small kind of AG or there they have heavy genetic potential. So I don't plan to sell them. You would be getting ripped off with bad genetics. The only genetics I have of the pumpkin is 136 Horlings x Self.

If I do pull this huge patch off I plan to sell my pumpkins to a local market or markets cheap. Don't think they will like them though big heavy pumpkins like that. There only really for show. But it will be fun to see 355 plants growing together. If I do do this I will post pictures. Maybe I can make a record. That would be fun.

Thanks for you input! Good Luck in 2005!

1/12/2005 6:54:07 PM

New Jersey

Forests have lots of animals and they will attempt to totally destroy your efforts...

1/12/2005 8:58:53 PM

[email protected]

It'll still be cool if it works. I hope Kyle has some good luck & takes lots of pictures!

1/12/2005 9:29:13 PM

Thanks guys! Hope this works it will be very cool if it works. And ya there will be animals in that forest but theres a lot of plants thats gonna be out there. I should get an anti deer spray. I think thats my biggest threat. Its not like a normal forest though it starts on the edge of the Holland Marsh Canal and only goes back 200 ft of a bit of swamp than a hill will a sparse amount of trees. Not very many animals on my side.

I plan to get lots of pictures, and make a lot of expiraments and see what goes good.

1/13/2005 6:45:38 PM