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New Bremen, Ohio

When I was an adrenaline addict in skydiving, there was a different vocabulary of slang words that the average person off the street had no idea what we were talking about.

Examples:
Wuffo - Skydiver slang for people who don't jump, from "Wuffo you jump out of them planes?"
Rig - Skydiver slang for the entire parachute, including main and reserve canopies and the harness/container.
Pud - Slang for the handle on a pull out pilot chute system.
Dirt dive - To rehearse a skydive on the ground.
Dead spider - Slang for de-arch.
Bounce - To land at unsurvivable speed. Also to frap, or go in (in other words die).
Boogie - A gathering of skydivers, usually focused on fun rather than competition.
Fridge - Slang term for some hard helmets


I want to know what slang words have developed in our small group of addicted pumpkin growers.

I'll start:

"Going Nesbitt" - meaning (Outside the box thinking, giving 100% and going as elaborate as possible to exceed the original assigned goal)

2/9/2004 7:57:01 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

"Christmas Tree" Don't be looking for no evergreen in my garden
"Training the vine" you wont see me out there giving short commands to my pumpkin plants. Although some could use some good discipline.
"Baboon Butt" When the blossom end of the Pumpkin gets a large navel like an orange.
"Going Green" a silly mistake some growers do after growing pumpkins for several years, Something close to a midlife crisis I believe.

2/9/2004 8:10:51 PM

New Bremen, Ohio

Excellent Shannon !!!

2/9/2004 8:31:06 PM

Long Island,New York

"Throwing up"...when a squash seed doesn't throw green but orange. "My 900Lyons didn't throw green...it "threw up".
"Charlie Brown Xmas tree"....a plant styled in the traditional Xmas tree pattern that wouldn't cooperate.......

2/9/2004 8:56:28 PM

Mill Creek West by god Virginia

my personal search for nervana down yonder in the punnkin patch,praying for that one great orange globe that will make my day!!!!!!!!!!!burrhead mill creek west virginia

2/9/2004 8:58:18 PM

Cornelius, Oregon

Couple More....
Twizzlers.... Tendrils
Snippin Twizz.... Pruning off the tendrils (otherwise known as Twizzlers).
Flag Pattern... Allowing 1/2 of a 'Christmas Tree' to grow.
Dill Ring... A 'Sag Line' or crease in the pumpkin/squash.
Dill Hole... A split in a Dill Ring or an idiot. You pick.
Moron... Grower that believes that puting MORE fertilizer ON is always better.
Kicking my own ass...When you make a mistake and a third leg grows out your back and kicks your own ass out of the patch.
Cutcleanslopnstick... The 4 step process of puting together PVC Pipe.
Squmpkin...The NW name for a half breed pumpkin/squash.
Bag lady... Person who fills the water bags that go on a vine recently cut for the trip to the weighoff.
Wheel... A very short, but high and wide pumpkin.
Mombert shape... When a fruit has big wide shoulders and tapers to a smaller blossom end.
A Rock... when a fruit weighs way over chart.

2/9/2004 10:16:29 PM

Norton, MA

"WAY heavy" When a pumpkin weighs far over charts. When I tell people my pumpkin went heavy they don't know what I'm talking about. Alex.

2/10/2004 6:26:03 AM

Roanoke Il

Going Pistono When you push your pumpkins so hard that they pop lol

2/10/2004 6:43:06 AM

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Blowin tips - when something in the soil feeds the plant way too much nutrients and you come home from work and find the top 6 inches of your main or secondary laying on the ground. Note; this only happens to your biggest andbest plant according to Murphy's law! This also leads to vocabulary word # 2...

Jack slammin - this isnt reffering to a good dose of Jack's Classic Fert, it is referring to getting out the Jack Daniels and swigging away as you find catastrphic loss when everything was going so good.

Hoard'n - Slang put to people who like to have a selection of seeds by those growers jealous of them having some good seeds.

Coming out of the closet - This refers to those growers who have always wanted to grow a green one, but could never bring themselves to do it. Then, one happy year (2004) the world seems to want to go green and hundreds come out of the closet they have been hiding in!

2/10/2004 6:43:08 AM

ipswich, ma usa

Pumpkin Widow -- What my fiance calls herself during the growing season. :)

John (5150)

2/10/2004 9:09:03 AM

Billerica,Massachusetts

Bird-bath--- a pumpkin that grows blossom end up and has a deep concaved depression that usually fills with rainwater.

Glenn

2/10/2004 9:27:57 AM

Roselle, IL [email protected]

Perfect female = a nice tight 5-segment flower you can't wait to pollinate !

Sloppy female "scrambled eggs" = A loosely segment female flower you pollinate, but are not that satisfied with ...

Aborted or abortion = Loss of female flower due to poor pollination, heat, to much fertilizer, etc.

2/10/2004 9:37:35 AM

Utah

PB- personal best not peanut butter
flat vine-
ribbon-
mutant [_____] as in mutant vine, female, male, etc-
blow out-
blow up-
cross-
cross back-
Hot seed-
Heavy Hitter-
OTT-
Circ-
f-b
s-s
SASBP -
Double Bubble -

2/10/2004 9:54:37 AM

[email protected]

Not really slang. But words while not exclusive to our field, still greek to many casual observers:

Genetics
Progeny
hierarchy
contacts (insecticides & fungicides)
systemics (see above)
pentetrants

Slang words & others:

Phyto (as in spray damage phytotoxicity)
Phyto (as in the root disease phytophthora)
pathogens (could mean anything. depends how it's used)
sib or sibbed (as in sibling pollination)
selfed (see above)
DMG (damaged)
EST (estimated weight)
UOW (UnOfficial Weight)
I "toasted" or "fried" some leaves in the heat.
Newbie
Hitter
Cantalouping
Greenie (squash)
Brick (shaped)
Wheel (shape)
Pancake (shape)
Block (shape)
shoulders (not the growers)
erection (as in the 845 growth trait)
nipping, pinching, etc (as in tendrils & unwanted flowers)
misting, icing, chilling (as in cooling)
Pounding (as in growth or Beer or your head against a wall)
Spy Tour (as in patch tour)
training (as in vines)
setting (as in fruit)
tips (the tender end of a vine)
weigh-in
weigh-off
color rule

2/10/2004 10:49:40 AM

Rhode Island

wicked wicked big
what we call pumpkins grown in New Hampshire no offense mr weir or jutras

2/10/2004 12:45:23 PM

Indiana

Hey vertigo
I have 450 jumps, havent made one in about a year and a half I got my "rig" out the other day and looked at it, now I need to make a jump! gotta get my "knees in the breeze" this summer! also thought of another slang "when in doubt whip it out"
Steve

2/10/2004 12:47:04 PM

Indiana

Vertigo
Where did you jump in ohio? I used to jump as skydive Anderson in indiana.
Steve

2/10/2004 12:48:36 PM

Indiana

Ok I looked at a map I bet it was Lima.
Steve

2/10/2004 12:50:53 PM

Kuna, Id.

Cover Crop = What you use Armstrong seeds for
Germing Test = What you use Armstrong seeds for
Test Patch = What you use Armstrong seeds for

2/10/2004 1:08:53 PM

Edmonton, Canada

sibbed, selfed or open pollinated!

2/10/2004 1:42:50 PM

Ontario

gone Nesbitt lol

2/10/2004 2:15:10 PM

Calif

Sandbagger-----------------one who tells everyone how crapy his plants are then blows everyone away at the weigh-off

Going green ---one who has given up on life.

2/10/2004 3:57:51 PM

New Bremen, Ohio

Moondog - Had almost 900 jumps at Grandlake Skydiving and Xenia. I participated in the Ohio & Indiana State record for the largest skydiving formation. I loved the sport a lot, but had to sell my "rig" about 2 years ago so my wife could get her .....her.....her.....melons. (lol)

2/10/2004 4:10:35 PM

Brillion Wisconsin

Cukes, slang for the Striped Cucumber Beetle

2/10/2004 5:42:24 PM

Commack, NY

oh that's it Ken.......its on now!! LOL

okay, i got a couple...
"stelts 90"......dave doesnt "S" his vines, he makes a 90 degree curve after the fruit....
"Handy tilt"......ever notice how pauls fruits are always blossom down, stem up?
"Digging".......that's what you do when you just cant wait for the first female (or any female for that matter) you "dig" in the growing tip to look for it.
"pull an Armstrong".....also known as snapping the main vine when its 2 feet long or less, even though you know better, but you cant stop yourself from touching it. i also like to refer to this as cutting the main an inch after the fruit, becuase you didnt leave enough slack in the vine, giving you no other option.

2/10/2004 9:35:05 PM

Knopp, Germany

Also might not be slang, but we know what is meant, I think...LOL
New Hampshire Pruning Method
New Hampshire Granite Dust

2/11/2004 1:43:00 AM

Ljubljana, Slovenia

»to cook it« when the soil heats because of excessive manure...

2/11/2004 10:53:40 AM

C N Y

okay, i would like to offer-up my own term, SPOBBY, for we are always saying "the sport/hobby of giant pumpkin growing"
i think SPOBBY says all that in a much-compacted form-

there are a lot of other terms i've never heard before that
i've said to myself first---lol---SPOBBY just happens to apply, i hope, to giant pumpkin growing. howulike?

2/12/2004 7:43:37 PM