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Buffalo, New York

As many of you know, 3 fruit on my plant. biggest one is 59" around and smallest one about 52" around.

all 3 have slowed down growing alot. maybe 1/2" growth each per day.

is it worth culling the 52" fruit to maybe get the 2 bigger ones to grow again, or is it too late?

thanks.

8/13/2007 7:59:27 AM

Wi

I had to cull a 50+ inch fruit on a plant a few weeks ago because of animal damage. The second fruit was about 20" at the time. Now it's over 300# and doing close to 30# a day.

8/13/2007 10:06:55 AM

Georgia

Good question Jeremy and unfortunetly as a new grower Id also like to know. I had two pumpkins on one of my plants and waited to late I think. I decided to cull one of them and hopefully this pushes a little more energy to the remaing one. Culling a 250 pound plus pumpkin was tough but Im growing for size so its one per plant for me. Good Luck

8/13/2007 10:10:20 AM

Midwest

What are your goals? - Will you want many pumpkins to display in October? Or, would you rather have a pumpkin you can say is the best you could grow at your personal experience level?

8/13/2007 2:23:39 PM

Farmville, Virginia ([email protected])

Pick one to keep and cull the rest before you lose all growth gains. Just make sure you don't whack them off all at once. Cut about a third of the way through the stems of the culls each day until you get them off.

8/13/2007 4:22:27 PM