What a difference a week makes. First pumpkins still doing well from what I can tell but this week I did take the advice of the experts and terminated one of the pumpkins. They were really to close to each other but it still was hard to do. With that being said, I do have two new additions to my pumpkin family on the plant that I didn't think was going to survive. How is everybody else doing?

22 Jul 29 Jul

Pumpkins still growing well but with all this hot weather big plant showed some signs of wilting so need to add a couple more drip lines to the base. Also had to loosen up the soil around the plants as it was as hard as a rock. Will see what next week brings, should have some new pumpkins on smaller plant as it is showing signs of promiscuity.

15 Jul 22 Jul

15 Jul 22 Jul

Ghetto hail protection

So here is a picture of the garden with the hail protection over it. We used 1/4 inch landscaping material and u-posts. Definitely not the most attractive garden but very functional. This is pumpkin number one (the one on the right in the picture above). It comes from a 200 lb pumpkin. It's being very slow to grow. (The posts are a little less than 3 feet apart.)
This is the plant from the 350 lb pumpkin. It's got 1 male flower that opened and died and the startings of many male and female flowers.

These pictures were taken on the 18th of July.

Rookie plants

Well it has been a week since last post and while not obvious to us because we look at the plants every day the plants have grown quite a bit. This week the plants got a dose of fish tank water and miracle grow. Bigger plant has 3 additional female flowers while smaller plant is beginning to develop male flowers. Starting to look at terminating some of the pumpkins so that we can concentrate on just the one. Anybody know of a good way to do this?

16 Jul

9 Jul

Rookie

I don't know how exactly I was talked into growing pumpkins but being a first timer it certainly has opened my eyes to whole new experience. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that I would have to be a surrogate to pumpkin growing or that there was so much involved. With that being said here are a couple of pictures of where I am at currently with my pumpkin growing experience.

2 Jul, came back from vacation and found blooming male flower and these two developing female flowers. The female flower on the right bloomed and was hand pollinated on 4 Jul 2007. the second female flower bloomed and was hand pollinated on 6 Jul.

This is the size of the two pumpkins on 9 Jul

This is the size of the plants on 9 Jul