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Nova Scotia

i was wounder what's your best ratio for plant size to pumpkin weight. example #1 500lbs pumpkin with a 500sq' plant so the ratio would be 1 to 1 example #2 1000lbs pumpkin on a 500sq' plant ratio 2 to 1

1/21/2005 11:17:11 AM

Nova Scotia

my best ratio is a 900lbs pumpkin on a 800sq' plant ratio 1.125lbs to 1sq'

1/21/2005 11:18:56 AM

Edmonton, Canada

420 pounds on a 180 square foot patch.

2.33 pounds to 1 sq. foot

1/21/2005 11:50:34 AM

Minnesota([email protected])

615 lbs. on approx. 300 sq. ft.
2.075 lbs. per sq. ft.

1/21/2005 12:56:48 PM

Eugene, OR

Cool thread.

833 pounds on 450 sq. ft.
765 pounds on 400 sq. ft.

1/21/2005 1:32:30 PM

Waquoit Mass

1200 pounds to 550 sq feet

1/21/2005 1:37:09 PM

Taber, Alberta

716 on 375 sq feet

1/21/2005 1:39:31 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

1088 lbs. pumpkins (two) on one plant in 350 sq. ft.

3.1 lbs per sq. ft.

1/21/2005 1:42:57 PM

Western NY

445# on a 150 sqft plant
1170 (585# x 2) on 500 sqft.

those were probbaly my 2 best from memory

1/21/2005 1:53:57 PM

Mulino, Oregon

1139 on 450 sq. ft

1/21/2005 5:56:08 PM

Woodburn, Indiana

814 lbs on 576 sq ft.

1/21/2005 6:39:10 PM

Western Pa.

It's hard to remember!

809.5# on around 175 sq. ft.

1/21/2005 8:23:26 PM

Indiana

744 on about 250 sq ft

1/22/2005 12:17:44 AM

Indiana

ron wallace had 919 on about 100 sq ft?

1/22/2005 12:37:32 AM

Deer Park WA

I let the plant "Tell Me" how big it needs to be based up on the current weather patterns along with my stupid grower mistakes I seem to inflict upon it... So far 834* in about 1100 sq ft is my best, but again I seem to continualy over compensate for the weather and make too many fert/pruning mistakes LOL!

1/22/2005 2:04:43 AM

Caceres, mid west of Spain

1036 on 700 sq ft. Not too good ratio.

1/22/2005 4:16:52 AM

Caceres, mid west of Spain

Tom, are you sure about that incredible ratio of Ron W?

1/22/2005 4:17:44 AM

[email protected]

Ron & Dick's anomoly was 919.6 lbs harvested for a 9-22 weigh-off (Durham). After losing the main when the fruit was 100 lbs, the pumpking grew to finish on 125 sq ft of main & secondary vines. The fruit was grown on their 1068 Wallace '03 x 500 Wallace '03.

1/22/2005 7:13:46 AM

Ontario, Canada.

1168 pounds of fruit on the 1301 Eaton in 400sq.ft.

2.92

1/22/2005 7:48:21 AM

Ontario, Canada.

Joe, This sounds like a good thread to chart. Its perfect for some good data. Nice job Mr. T

1/22/2005 7:51:15 AM

Cornelius, Oregon

The 1027 was grown on a 1230 daletas plant which was grown on a plant that was part of an experiment where I divided a 30 x 30 site into quarters. 900/4 so 225 sqft. Oddly enough, the 906, 825, 840 also came off of plants in this one site. 3598 pounds, one on each of four plants in a 30 x 30 area.

1/22/2005 12:12:00 PM

Walkerton Ont

if u had a small plant, wouldnt u half to have healthy green and big leaves to produce a nice fruit and nice weather. i just dont want to have too small of a plant for type of seeds i have and not give enough plant to get the most growth out of the fruit

1/22/2005 12:39:38 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

Are we talking 100 sq. ft of soil or total plant area? Must be soil....

1/22/2005 12:53:40 PM

Eugene,OR

My 873.5 was grown on 250 square feet of plant...the main vine broke off just beyond the fruit that had set a few days before.

1/22/2005 5:19:37 PM

Deer Park, WI

Russ you are right. Ive put the data into our excel sheet. Keep the numbers coming! Gordon gets credit for doing something quite similar to this...lets work together and produce something here!

1056 Ailts 650 Sq ft
1016 Ailts 600 sq ft
905 Ailts 600 sq ft

1/24/2005 9:31:08 AM

Utah

this is what I did. I took all of the pumpkins over 1,000 lbs and plots the number versus the plant size. I used AGGC data. those that didn't have a size given were not included. This is what I came up with.

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/displayphoto.asp?pid=3534&gid=1

SOOOOO ... it looks like we should grow 650 sq ft plants ... or 400 sq ft plants ! it is interesting to me that there are two spikes in the data ... I'm still trying to figure out if one is better than the other.

1/24/2005 11:39:26 AM

Utah

this should be a more stable link ...

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/displayphoto.asp?pid=3534&gid=-3085

maybe this ratio could be used to find the ideal size for a particular seed ?

1/24/2005 11:43:15 AM

Utah

906 Tanner 2004 on 550 sq ft.
gives 1.65 lbs./sq ft

1/24/2005 11:58:59 AM

Key West, FL

gordan, the only reason I htink there is more 600 sq ft plants is because that was the old practice and still is the common practice. I think a 400 to 500 sq ft plant has the same amount of potential. Jack La Rue's plants this year were 400 sq ft.

1/24/2005 1:30:58 PM

Utah

Ben-
I know that Jacks are 400 sq ft ... and his sucess makes it VERY tempting to go that small doesn't it !!! right now I have 4 at 550 ... I could easily go to 5 at 440 sq ft each. so I am considering that. But I felt I was really sucessful last year with what I did. AND a lot of growers still use 600-700 sq ft and are VERY succesful at it

to me it was just interesting to see the two spikes ...
not both ends tapered to a single middle spike. I guess that was what I was expecting when I collected the data ...
the trend is definately smaller ... 5-10 years ago 1,000 sq ft was the minimum recomended area and 2,000 was better !

1/24/2005 2:14:32 PM

Walkerton Ont

Stan how far out was your pumpkin

1/24/2005 2:54:01 PM

Cameron,ontario Team Lunatic

839 on 500 sq ft and 926 on 500 sq ft. I hope this helps.

Phil

1/24/2005 7:28:03 PM