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North Ga

Hi all, Well, Long Shot lived up to her name. 7 males have bloomed so far and about 200 perfect females that have aborted. The males are hideous looking specimens compared to the flowers that Ken sent. None of those took although the females got a little bigger than "normal" Ha Ha!! About the size of a grapefruit. Normal abort, The size of a lemmon. LOL. I've learned a lot from this site and from all you great folks. I appreciate it! I'll keep checking in on ya'll to see and read about your progress, and dream about my big one next year.Thanks again,
Pappy

8/6/2001 7:48:47 PM

Mid Michigan

Bummer Pappy!! You couldn't get anything to set at all? I really feel bad for ya. Keep your chin up, and kick some butt next, eh?
Cuzbiker

8/6/2001 8:48:02 PM

Connecticut, USA

Pappy,

Sorry to hear the news. You'll have better luck next year!

8/7/2001 9:44:16 AM

GULFPORT,MISSISSIPPI

what was causing all of the aborts in pappy's pumpkin patch?

8/7/2001 11:05:50 PM

Garden State Pumpkins

Sorry to hear that Pappy...My year is over too. Like you said I learned alot and will be back next year...This time with the right size garden. I still have plants growing elsewhere that I started and get to visit them...but it's not the same...NEXT YEAR!!

8/8/2001 12:58:08 PM

Charlotte, North Carolina

When my season is over I just tend to my bonsai trees until the season starts again........just a suggestion.

-P.

8/10/2001 4:13:40 PM

Chester Co., PA

P, Have you thought about combining your hobbies and growing a bonsai Atlantic Giant?

8/10/2001 5:10:21 PM

Charlotte, North Carolina

I already am trying to grow one....a big max, but I think I stunted the plant too much.....the plant is standing upright like a tree and looks like a bonsai too....about a foot tall and there are lots of male flowers blooming but no female ones.

-P.

8/10/2001 8:57:41 PM

Shreveport, Louisiana

I think I have the same bonsai big max strain. My big max's are doing the same thing -- growing straight up. I think I will put a wire cage around it and tell the neighbors it is orange tomatoes.

8/10/2001 9:55:01 PM

Charlotte, North Carolina

A week ago I took a trip to Queens,NY to visit my relatives.
By the building, parallel to the driveway there was a strip of land used as a vegetable garden. Climbing the fence there was a vine(looked like a small pumpkin vine)with a 5 foot long green thing growing from it.....I don't know if it was a huge zuchinni or a huge gourd.....does anybody know what could have been growing?

-P.

8/11/2001 4:13:32 PM

Long Island,New York

More than likely it was a cucuzzi....a long baseball bat sized light green squash used in soups and caseroles, mainly by Italians here....................G

8/11/2001 10:34:19 PM