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Bobcaygeon Ontario

I know most of us are allowing only 1 pumpkin/plant but I am curious to know how many pounds of pumpkin 1 AG plant can produce with multiple pumpkins. Is there a world record for most lbs of fruit from 1 plant? 3000 lbs from 1 plant? 4000 lbs from 1 plant? If not, perhaps there should be.
Just a thought.

5/31/2005 10:50:39 PM

Sioux Falls, SD [email protected]

That would be an interesting contest. . .
Much harder to verify at a contest. . .
But I have heard of several large on same vine.
Also possibility for honest mistakes.
I accidentally grew a 275 with a 544. . thought it was on another plant.
A friend thought he had 4 big (3-500) on one vine.
With fall clean-up he discovered 2 were on another plant he had been cussing for underperforming.

5/31/2005 11:05:21 PM

Pumpkintown, SC

I'm sure this isn't a record or anything but it is/was quite impressive for SC where the record just 3 years ago was 501lbs...I had a large plant that I had planned to set a single fruit about 20' out, get the tip sun-burned right off. At this point being that my plan had been foiled, I tried for quantity instead of quality. That plant produced 9 almost identical 400lb pumpkins with a 10th 400lber that went down to a pickle worm. I thought that was pretty impressive, BF

5/31/2005 11:39:37 PM

Key West, FL

Most I've ever heard of was the 1230 and 1016 Daletas.

5/31/2005 11:42:53 PM

Anamosa, IA [email protected]

Last year, my first year with good seed, I had a 633.5, a 449 and a 100+ on the same vine. About 1200 pounds total.

6/1/2005 1:55:11 PM

Long Island,New York

Ask Mark Pistono...I think he had like 30 -500lbers on a 815Checkon plant once....Mark?

6/1/2005 5:21:00 PM

Montoursville, PA

I had a guy who planted my 710 last year and then got sick.
Nothing.......absolutely nothing was done but let mother run her course. The tally was: One over five hundred, One over 400 and five or six more for an estimated total, of a ton, of pumpkins. Damn nothing...absloutely nutten. :)))

6/1/2005 5:52:35 PM

Roanoke Il

never had 30 glenn 7 ranging from 350 -550 if one had a warm climate lets say califorina one could grow endless amounts of pumpkins on a plant.. 20000 lbs worth plus.

6/1/2005 9:56:44 PM

Leamington, Ont.

Jake van Kooten had an 1142 and a 958 on one plant in '04
And another plant grew a 748 and 718 for him, also in '04
Pretty impressive!!

6/1/2005 10:02:57 PM

Dillsburg, PA

These numbers are really impressive. Seven pumpkins over 300lbs. Very cool.

6/2/2005 8:47:30 AM