OTT measuring-YEAH RIGHT! "You can't use an AG chart"
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- Subject: OTT measuring-YEAH RIGHT! "You can't use an AG chart"
- From: S* <t*@netnet.net>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:56:10 -0500
<< Subj: OTT measuring-YEAH RIGHT!
Date: 8/16/98 3:17:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: SteveS012@aol.com
Sender: owner-pumpkins@mallorn.com
Reply-to: pumpkins@mallorn.com
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
Well, I used the Dill method in the HTGWCGP book to measure my Burpee
Prizewinner, and both are telling me that it weighs over 200 pounds.
Uh, I
DON'T THINK SO! I couldn't use the other table since the circ isn't 70
inches
yet.
The circ from stem to blossom end is 56 inches. The OTT measurement
from stem
to blossom end is 40 inches, and across it is 37.5 inches. I took all
the OTT
measurements EXACTLY the way it said, over the top and hanging down
straight
to the ground on each side. Added all those up and multiplied by 1.9!
How am I
supposed to estimate the weight? I know it can't be over 200 pounds!
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>>
I don't think you can use an AG chart for a Prizewinner, the wall
thickness on
an AG is much thicker.
George
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I used the chart last year for my Prizewinners with good results within
15-lbs either way, had one estimated OTT 235-lbs actual weight was 227.
Scooty - Krakow,Wi
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