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New York

Hi,
I'm a magazine editor for a national women's health magazine. We're looking for several pumpkins for a photo shoot next week. Of course, these aren't yet available in the U.S. If you farm overseas and have some pumpkins that you're willing to share (we're willing to pay), please let me know as soon as possible. Your pumpkins will be famous!
Thanks!
Amy
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6/25/2007 5:02:00 PM

Oz

can you ship pumpkins overseas?customs,etc,,,.

6/25/2007 5:09:56 PM

ordinary,VA

pumpkins ready in Arizona.

6/25/2007 5:41:19 PM

New York

I sent you an e-mail; please check your inbox. Thanks!

6/25/2007 5:59:56 PM

Utah

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=66520

6/25/2007 6:15:03 PM

New York

I forgot to mention that I'm looking for normal-sized pumpkins only. Thanks!

6/25/2007 6:48:36 PM

Pemberton, BC

Normal Sized?? Booorring..

6/25/2007 8:02:47 PM

Rhode Island

i have several that were pollinated a couple days ago and can be shipped quite cheaply lol

6/25/2007 9:10:32 PM

ordinary,VA

hahahahaha lol@ PAP!!

THANKS FOR THE EMAIL.
Forward your email to the grower in Arizona.
I live in Virginia sorry couldnt help you.

6/25/2007 9:15:02 PM

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I get emails from magazine editors now & again. Here in New England we are just pollinating the giants. Most edible & ornamental field pumpkin growers that I know just planted their seeds.

6/25/2007 11:59:17 PM

New York

Pap--I'm new to this. Does pollinated mean that they'll be an orange color right about now? If so, I'm very, very interested in buying. Thanks!!

6/26/2007 2:12:27 PM

Georgia

No magazine editor it means he just pollinated the female flowers to get fruit set on them. But since they are Paps they might already be a 100 pounds or so...just joking they wouldnt be ready.

6/26/2007 2:36:02 PM

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Mag.

My company supplies some of the pumpkin growers in MA. I'm serious when I say they just planted their seeds. The plants are just breaking ground.

Only us crazy Atlantic Giant growers start pumpkins indoors in April. No field farmer can bear this expense.

The day they're pollinated an Atlantic Giant pumpkin will be smaller than an apple. A week later it'll be the size & shape of a football - the color at this point is pale yellow.

Regardless of species, unless you special order a pumpkin in January (with a deposit) you won't find an orange one this time of year. To have orange now would require they be started in December & grown in a heated greenhouse. The cost of heat & electricity would create a MASSIVE expense.

Labor, gas, & electricity for a modest size greenhouse from December thru June would vary by area but here in CT say $25,000 - $60,000. If 100 8 lb pumpkins were ordered & prepaid then they would have a current cash value of up to $600 each.

All that aside, I have spray painted early culls (unwanted fruit 20-40 lbs) from Atlantic Giants. They don't store for long but no one would know they were fakes on TV or print.

6/26/2007 3:21:20 PM

Utah

our pumpkins are already famous! especially Ron & Dicks... and for the rest of us ... the neighborhood children really like ours... just because they are Big.

Have you tried normalsizedpumpkins.com ?

or maybe "hicks from the sticks" have some you could use? You’d probably have to brush up on your redneck speak though.

or maybe you could paint a couple of Pap's culls orange with hobby paint?

or maybe Martha Stewart has as a "how to make home made realistic artificial out of season pumpkins from chicken wire, foam and bee's wax for your National Women's Magazine Film Shoot next week" guide on her web site somewhere?

ok serously... I don't know of anyone that starts regular sized pumpkins Jan 1st in the off chance that someone will be looking to buy a couple of them at the begining of July. hope you find some though...

6/26/2007 3:27:24 PM

Rhode Island

there could be a few in australia about now? or jd in alaska ?

6/26/2007 7:17:46 PM

Delaware, Ohio

They won't be back.....

6/26/2007 11:19:11 PM

Port Elgin, Ontario, Canada

you guys are really hard on a girl just trying to get a story....lol.

6/26/2007 11:21:47 PM

San Jose [email protected]

if someone in Socal wanted to make some money they could plant jacko's in march and have them ready when these non forward thinking people are looking for pumpkins. I did this two years ago and sold some to a cooking show, I got $20 each and they picked them up at my house. Last year some lady in new york making a horror movie needed pumpkins, and paid me $40 each plus overnight shipping it cost her like $400 bucks, then she needed some again, for another couple of hundred. It amazes me they do not shoot their stuff in season when it would cost what, $5 and a trip to safeway?

6/27/2007 10:04:50 PM

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Gary,

No Safeways in NY. What I find most amusing is that none of us have been bright enough to make up some fake plastic ones. If it's just a photo-shoot then fake would be fine.

Cooking show are another matter & they might be best off making So-Cal or even New Zealand arrangements.

I work with a woman who does TV commercials at these vacant estates in Greenwich. The family is jetting all over the world during the summer but they leave the house in the hands of some trusted "house man" who makes the arrangements. Brand new trees, shrubs & flowers are set right on the ground still in their containers. New mulch is mounded around the containers so they can't be seen. We then spray paint the turf green. After the shooting is complete the plants are returned to the nursery for credit minus the restocking fee & delivery & pickup charges. The place gets tidied back up & the filthy rich homeowner has another check waiting for them when they get home.

6/28/2007 12:57:57 AM