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2007 is without precedent. Never has the World Record taken such a beating. In many cases by the same seeds in the same soil by the same grower using the same program.

If anyone has access to such data it would be interesting to see the local weather for the "hot spots" that grew 1500+ this year. I'll wager that there were fewer cloudy days.

For the record, the Japanese have determined that the sun is burning hotter right now.

10/18/2007 11:32:16 AM

I'm betting on degree day activity,,warm nights across a wide belt of the nation this year.

This info is available at:
http://www.wunderground.com
flip around throught the site lots of get data

10/18/2007 12:17:20 PM

canal winchester ohio

I've had that talk with a few growers & we all thought it was the extremley warm summer ( at least in the eastern U.S.) that helped the high weights. Or mainly the many,many warmer than normal nights.

10/18/2007 1:00:11 PM

ohio

I keep the weather for OVGPG and 2007 had 376 more growing degree days than 2006

10/18/2007 1:24:16 PM

Western NY

how far back does your degree-day numbers go? i'd love to see a graph of degree days each summer vs. Canfield's top 10 (or 20) average.

10/18/2007 2:39:40 PM

Georgia

I totally agree the only bad part about the sun down here is we stay at 100 degree plus days and high humidity for a long time. I think if its a cloudy stormy year next year the weights will be a lot lower.

10/18/2007 2:47:09 PM

Ohio

Yea it sure has to be something , look at some of the older seed that was grown to some real high weights, its amazing how many 1600 and 1500 lbers that was grown this year, gotta be something thats for sure. Im just wondering how next years pumpkins is going to compare to this years averages, Im just wondering if there will be a big diffrence if say we got the same weather in 2006 for 2008, think there will be a big diffrence? Its really hard to call that one since year after year it seems that these pumkins always get bigger, or maybe its because we have more growers now?

10/18/2007 6:15:20 PM

ohio

Canfield had 8 days of 90°, my weather goes back to 1994

10/18/2007 8:26:48 PM

Minnesota([email protected])

Interesting....maybe the weather was a big factor. Quite sunny and hot this summer here in MN...and I broke my personal best by 308 lbs.

10/19/2007 1:50:05 AM

Puyallup, WA

Right....and you guys on the East Coast sucked all the heat out of the Pacific Northwest leaving us with a cooler than average summer. Turnabout is fair play in 2008! Be forewarned!

10/19/2007 2:18:03 AM

San Jose [email protected]

the coolness didnt seem to hurt you northwest guys, 1524 in oregon, joel got a pb..............

10/19/2007 9:27:04 PM

Colo Springs CO

Don't laugh at this reply, but one does need to factor in to some degree the effect of increased CO2 levels the entire world has these days. No, global warming isn't going to be much of a factor as the tempatures aren't going up as fast as the CO2 levels are. Maybe if the scientists are correct, 20 or 30 years from now we might be saying something different about the tempatures. Todays scientific proof is that our atmosphere each year contains more and more CO2, and anyone who has used CO2 indoors will tell you how great growth can be. I'm not going to say this is the main reason, but I'd not rule out that the increasing CO2 isn't a partial factor in higher weights year after year. If my plants could speak, perhaps they would be yelling at me & saying "support your local global warming"...LOL...

10/20/2007 2:00:11 PM

ohio

Vote for Al Gore LOL...

10/20/2007 2:23:29 PM