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ontario

ok here is one for everyone to ponder....would you rather have early pollinations and have under developed plants feed it or much bigger developed plants ready to pour out that juice on a later set ???????????????

7/25/2004 5:30:57 PM

Leicester, NY

Hey wk,
How's it grow'in? Here's one vote for big mature plants and then letting it pour on the juice..Joe P.

7/25/2004 6:15:33 PM

Walkerton Ont

Im beginning to think later, as i am still polinating on my one plant. This plant is from my own pumpkin last year, which was polinated last week of july and didnt set till first week of augest and still manage to grow 547 lbs when october 5 weigh off came.

7/25/2004 6:16:54 PM

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Can't we be greedy & set fruit on big plants early? LOL

I'd go for a full plant especially since most of our early sets end up aborting anyway.

7/25/2004 6:20:35 PM

ontario

Joe is going great.....best season ever plant wise....very healthy....late sets but my early 10 day numbers best I have ever had with not much heat......maybe its the fact I have avaiable this year twice the time in my patch....your 2-735's are awesome...723 Bobier that Bill kindly provided is kicking ???........805 Pukos is on pace with my best plant 842 Eaton....771 Stellpflug is best squash at this point.....my sets are about a week behind, but the plants are fully developed and its showing.....my vote is like yours Joe.........see you in Clarence Ny....

7/25/2004 6:28:02 PM

Key West, FL

That was my plan this year, have big plants to pollinate early on, I just couldn't get any early sets, so now I have late sets with pumpkins on the ends of mains.

7/25/2004 7:31:26 PM

Woodburn, Indiana

pumpkin on the end of main.

7/25/2004 8:12:45 PM

Saegertown Pa.

how about early polinations with developed plants that gets my vote.

7/25/2004 9:15:23 PM

ontario

so Quinn is alive LMAO .....:0)

7/25/2004 10:14:30 PM

Appalachian Mtns.

I've got an early set growing fairly well, 18 June, and it's closest to a crown @ 13'+.
Oh no, there's not a thing underveloped about any of my plants.

7/25/2004 10:16:06 PM

Okla

Well, basically I have to get an earlier fruit set or I can not get a pumpkin of any size. The heat here is awful july and august. I set pumpkins the last 2 weeks of june this year and still lost growth when the weather hit the 90s into the 100s. I am going to have to start transplanting out next year around the first to second week of March to be able to get the fast growth while it is still cool enough here before the high heat hits.Pollination will still be done on large healthy sized plants.
Thomas

7/25/2004 10:32:18 PM

Deer Park WA

wk, we allways try to get about 1000 sq ft behind our squash, and settle for around 800 for pumpkins. This useually means we set fruit in mid July, and frost out in early September! This year we have devised a late season protection plan and MS. Nature willing Dani and I will get those extra 150# in September.

7/26/2004 1:46:17 AM

Roanoke Il

big plants early pollination last week of june first week of July for pollination. mark

7/26/2004 8:17:00 AM

huntsburg,ohio

This year big plants and early sets.Jerry

7/26/2004 8:48:37 AM

Ontario, Canada.

I have both. Two early sets June 23rd & 26th and numerous July sets. The two earlies are a bit slow but I will try to nurse them along. They have taken off when the warmth arrived last week. The 23rd set will have 100 days on the vine if it can be kept going. Time will tell.

7/26/2004 9:20:24 AM

Wv

early and big plants here too. let the rain fall down

7/26/2004 12:04:24 PM

Vancouver, White Rock, Canada

The original question was a good one, but hasn't been answered, really... The ideal is obviously to have huge plants with lots of leaves behind the fruit, but I think the question was, if you had to choose between a fruit pollinated 8' from the crown and one pollinated 20' from the crown 2 weeks later, which one has a better chance, assuming both fruit are equally healthy?

7/26/2004 12:19:09 PM

Sequim, WA

I'm doing a bit of both this year and we'll see how it goes. There are several fruit set on plants that are only 8' out on the mains. I tried to make more sets further out but they have aborted or were growing far too slowly. There are also a couple plants that have fruit set later with more plant behind them. It will be interesting to see how things turn out.

7/26/2004 12:31:23 PM

Minnesota([email protected])

Here's a hypothetical that may help answer the original question. Which would you choose for a christmas tree pattern plant?

1. Fruit set on July 10.
10' out on the main
back(first) secondary vines 8'

2. Fruit set on July 24
15' on the main
back secondary vines 15'

Doug

7/26/2004 6:40:30 PM

Choctaw, OK

Early sets have longer time to grow, later sets dont...i say its a horse a piece, but later sets are sure much more fun to watch (and explode for all i am concerned). In my area, i would not like to have any main fruit set past july 12th, otherwise its just too late for the fall weather we get up here(especially for getting a 1000 lber). My biggest fruit have come from july 2nd, 9th, and 10th pollinations......

Case

7/26/2004 11:58:48 PM