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South Hill, Virginia

I just wanted to run this by the community to see if anyone else is suffering from the same malady as I. I would say at least 5 times a week I dream about something bad happening to my pumpkins. Last night everything just stopped growing. Usually the dreams are more catastrophic....stems splitting, vines snapping, hail, vandalism by the little &#@!! down the street...anyway, you get the idea. Is this just happening to me? Should I go ahead and make reservations at the nuthouse?

7/18/2001 10:16:01 AM

Billerica,Massachusetts

No your not nuts! i've been there myself! mine dreams/nitemares usually revolve around "it's the end of the year and the weigh-offs a day or two away and still no pumpkins set" ha like that would matter anyway!

Glenn

7/18/2001 10:23:43 AM

Western Pa.

I tried to warn you early on in the season that this was on obsession! "P" for pumpkin also stands for Prozac, "V" for vine also stands for Valium, "B" for blossom (beer), "W" for weigh-off(whiskey), etc., etc. Now do you make the connection? You must use your ability to look like Goldberg, and the strength of Cleon to overcome ALL odds!Don't take this task too lightly!

kilr

7/18/2001 10:26:25 AM

Connecticut, USA

My wife says that I actually talk in my sleep during the season and vocalize my nightmares! They are just like your's svrichb! Having big ones go down with rib spits the past two seasons has brought that particular nightmare to the forefront. Then there is the one about the 10 foot squash vine borer....

7/18/2001 11:17:31 AM

Long Island,New York

Nope..sorry. Who needs nightmares when you have the real thing? ! At least when YOU wake up they disappear !LOL....Anyone wanna come over and help me pull my 900Lyons plant out ? every single squash has suffered horizontal tears in the fruit stems before they layed down....no cause for these tears at all...no stesses,etc to cause them...actually in compression but cracking like in tension.........anyone seen this before?.......G

7/18/2001 11:43:32 AM

Charlotte, North Carolina

Three days in a row I have had the same dream about my vines rotting below me while I was watering them, then I find myself standing on top of the rotten vines........very weird dream.......-P.

7/18/2001 11:53:37 AM

Commack, NY

i had this dream that i asked my brother to help me slide something under my fruit, and before i had picked up the pumpkin he already was pushing it like there was no tomorrow and sliced a huge chunk out of my best fruit, and then from me looking under it, it split the stem? and then it was growing 6.5 inches a day .....and i was forced to cull? and i was left with fist sized fruit? then i woke up and realized that really happened.

7/18/2001 12:30:21 PM

derry n.h u.s.a.

you guys are scaring me .I'm going out and unburying all my vines and putting cushings under the air born fruits. john G

7/18/2001 2:14:41 PM

Burbank, CA

The other night I woke up all upset because I thought my wife had trimmed my plant and dug it up and moved it because she didn't like where it was growing and how much room it was taking up.

7/18/2001 2:44:11 PM

Mid Michigan

I keep dreaming that rabbits are eating all my vines, and taking chunks out of the pumpkins!! I see rabbits out by the patch every night, and that's probably the reason for the dreams! It's way stupid too, cuz i have a beagle close enough to the patch to keep 'em from doing any damage.
Weird, eh?

7/18/2001 4:18:18 PM

Myrtle Creek, Oregon

My wife thought I was weird!! wakeing up in the middle of the night and going out and checking on Grammpa, stressing over how fast the fruit is growing getting mad about it not growing more than 2' a day LOL this is Great I AM NORMAL!!!!

7/18/2001 9:55:57 PM

North Ga

I dreamed I was in a hollywood movie, and I was the star of the movie, this really blew my mind

7/18/2001 10:06:43 PM

North Ga

While waiting on federal express
I fell asleep for to take my rest
I dreamed a dream
that made me sad
concernin myself
And the first giant pumpkin
that I ever had

7/18/2001 10:11:11 PM

North Ga

It grew and grew
nothing could stop it
it was crushing me
I was about to lop it
To my amazement
cleon was near
he said to me,
do not fear.
Many growers before you
have come and gone
with their pumpkins they've made a special bond
Don't let that fruit kick your ass
Enjoy Gods creation
for soon it will pass.

7/18/2001 10:25:11 PM

Midway City, California

Sorry To hear all about your dreams. In three years of growing I have never had a Pumpkin Dream. Maybe I have the problem and you guy's are all the sane ones.( Just returned from Vacation and found a 71 inch circumfrence Pumpkin where I left a 12 inch one) NO DREAM
John = Water

7/19/2001 12:14:26 PM

Glenn Springs S.C.

Brent ,
I haven't had a dream yet ,maybe you should do what I do , I went on vacation and returned to fertilized pumpkins (and weeds everywhere) so I figure if they can do that without me they can grow without me I waterthem a few hours a day without ever going near the patch I go every couple of days to fertilize and spray sevin. I was getting a little anxious lookng every day I had to stop.
Jeff

7/19/2001 5:25:51 PM