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Minnesota

Are there any rules, how long are you aloud to grow them? Halloween? until your local weigh off? can you grow one all year & would that be considered a record if it kept growing? thanks

7/27/2007 9:08:46 PM

San Luis Obispo, Ca.

Oh Dude!

7/27/2007 9:45:47 PM

Dillsburg, PA

I still have one growing from 1992. The leaves are shot but it still is gaining. Hehe, couldn't resist. Most pumpkins stop at 60-70 days.

7/27/2007 9:54:35 PM

Minnesota([email protected])

From what I've seen and heard, usually these pumpkins have a growth period of 70-90 days from pollination(maybe 100 days in some regions). Most try to time them for a weighoff, such as state fairs, and early Oct. weighoffs. Here in MN, a hard fall frost will shut the plants down, unless you can set up some type of protection for the plant. The largest daily weight gains are typically from days 20-50, but with a healthy plant and good weather, a lot of pounds can be packed on in Sept.(from 60-90 days or so). If a world record is grown, I don't think it matters when it is weighed. But a certified scale and a number of credible witnesses would be needed for verification, I think.

7/27/2007 10:01:08 PM

Minnesota

o'k. thanks

7/28/2007 1:30:27 AM

ordinary,VA

this reminds me of my favorite question someone asked me at a weigh-off one year.
"How many years did it take you to grow that pumpkin"

Jeff are injecting milk into the pumpkin thats been growing since 1992?

7/28/2007 2:21:08 AM

Jeff, aren't you getting tired of rolling that same fruit?

7/28/2007 5:28:37 AM

Long Island,New York

Fog...I'm sure your wieghoff in Minnesota will let you grow it past the contest date...just tell them what wieght you think you will have when you finally decide to stop growing it and if you you're assumed future wieght is more than the others' future assumed wieght then you will win.

7/28/2007 6:51:35 AM

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glenn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

7/28/2007 10:20:21 AM

Minnesota

o'k, I'm going to hire charlie brown & peanuts as security.

7/28/2007 11:31:11 AM

Cottage Grove, MN

Oh jeez, now Linus is going to chime in....

7/28/2007 1:26:37 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Wait a minute and back up the tractor. Am I to understand correctly you guys are making fun of The peanuts characters...This my friends are why there are Squash Vine Borers..Because of people like you made the wrong thing or person mad.:)

7/28/2007 10:38:24 PM

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Oh Oh...somebody won't be getting a visit from the Great Pumpkin again this year!

7/28/2007 11:39:59 PM

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http://www.petcaretips.net/linus_great_pumpkin_letter.jpg

7/28/2007 11:41:00 PM

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Sally: "I was robbed! I spent the whole night waiting
for the Great Pumpkin when I could have been out for
tricks or treats! Halloween is over and I missed it!
You blockhead! You kept me up all night waiting for the
Great Pumpkin and all that came was a beagle!"

7/28/2007 11:43:33 PM

Minnesota

NO, I love cartoons, in fact I have a few I'm working on, only I'm begginer.

7/29/2007 12:03:24 AM

Minnesota

If your bored to death, check out the bar where charles shulz grew up in, go to,, o'gara's pup st'paul mn, click on about o'gara's,, click on history....

7/29/2007 12:07:34 AM