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Cincinnati,OH

What is the most extreme or crazy thing you've ever done to get a bigger pumpkin?

7/29/2004 4:22:35 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

The General Population thinks Giant Pumpkin Growers are insane.

7/29/2004 4:38:57 PM

Western Pa.

I do think I recall a certain grower who buried a dead pig under the plant to nourish it!

7/29/2004 4:55:45 PM

Utah

ssssshhhhhh... they are all secrets !

7/29/2004 5:13:24 PM

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4X application of Giberellic acid for cool weather growth. It worked too. 55 foot main by mid-July & all male flowers for 5 weeks. Not a smashing success unless there's a wiegh-off for vines that I don't know about.

Injected 2,4-D with a hypodermic needle. Fruit aborted & the vine grew like mad.

Injected GA3 with a hypodermic needle into the main just before the stem. No apparent change in fruit until I collected the seeds. Some were as large as Walnuts but not developed. Those that were developed were unusually thick & grow just fine.

This year it's absisic acid directly to the female to induce artificial pollination with the goal being a parthenocarpic fruit.

I wouldn't recommend any of these idiotic experiments on "the chosen one".

LOL

7/29/2004 5:54:59 PM

Cologne / Germany

"Breaking off your main vine for fun" - something I couldn´t find in the BP.com "toon section" but surely it´s worth a try...

7/29/2004 6:06:10 PM

Western Pa.

Tremor,

Methinks you must have been a nurse in a previous life!

7/30/2004 3:29:06 AM

Appalachian Mtns.

I just buried my 14 year old lab in March under where my 940 Mombert '00 is growing....it does have a pumpkin putting on 95# a week now, hmmmmm.

7/30/2004 6:31:56 AM