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South East

a got wheel blossom end up and wheels differ from the usual shaped pumpkins,,for instance,,circ is a smaller number then side to side,,and hardly bigger then end to end mesurements,,,
who els is growing a wheel or has and what where your findings on the messurments,,,where they accurate after weighing,,,and how much did the differ?

8/25/2007 10:39:50 AM

sevierville, Tn

you still measure the same, sis to side, over the top and cir, when i had "wheels" i measure cir at the widest part, where that is. Think of a tire laying flat on the ground, measure around the tread. Then just a straight cross for the side to side & end to end. Put marks with a marker so you always do the same place.

8/25/2007 2:49:42 PM

South East

al true smokey but a wheel standing up and a wheel that lys in a 45 or 60 degree angle differ,,u wil get diffrent mesurements,,

8/25/2007 5:24:59 PM

Farmville, Virginia ([email protected])

Cook, I have one growing exactly like what you describe, stem pointing almost straight down and blossom end pointing to the sky. I've been measuring using the method that smoky describes but like you I have also been looking at it and imagining it standing up with stem/blossom horizontal to the ground. My measurements would be TOTALLY different and it would seem to me that would be the true measurement. It taped at 300 OTT today but I couldn't help but wonder what it would tape the other way, more or less? Oh well, guess we will have to wait until we cut it from the vine and stand it up to get that true measurement.

8/25/2007 8:15:05 PM

Rhode Island

cook

heres how you measure a wheel ( pumpkin growing on its stem with blossom up in the air )like a giant bagel laying on the ground.

the circumferance is measured by taping around the entire outside circle of the wheel
the side to side is measured by laying the tape across from left to right side of pumpkin (usually running the tape across the center near the blossom area) measure ground to ground
the front to back is also measured in the same manner as the side to side
basicly? you are measuring in the same manner as a regular giant

pap

8/25/2007 8:19:06 PM

Mt Vernon Ky

thats how i been measureing my wife 792 wolf pumpkin its a big wheel with the blossom up it just look like it will be heavy we hope its ott is 322 on 8/16/07 = 772 on the chart

8/25/2007 8:40:45 PM

Minnesota([email protected])

If it's leaning at a 45-60 degree angle, you have a lot of air in on one side of the pumpkin, if you measure straight down to the ground. Maybe it makes up for this on the other side, where there is very little air between the ground and the pumpkin.

8/25/2007 9:02:02 PM

sevierville, Tn

COOK, I use the way i discribed since when i tried a "normal" measure method, the weight was way light. What I & Pap discribed got me alot closer to the weighed weigh.

8/25/2007 11:52:27 PM