re: Are we on track to hit 860 pounds? 1010?

As I've read over the past week or two of the amazing progress some of
you are making, I realized pretty quickly that a number of people are
ahead of Al Eaton's 10 year averages, and I got to wondering just how
fast these pumpkins are growing and what weights they will attain if
they keep up at this rate.  I turned to Bob Marcellus's awesome figures
concerning 860 and 1010# growth rates, and came up with these numbers.
The column "DAY" refers to days since pollination, and the column
"WEIGHT" refers to the total weight of the pumpkin on that day (which
can obviously be figured from OTT or circumference measurements).

Here's the breakdown:
According to Bob,
TO GROW 860#       TO GROW 1010#
DAY WEIGHT          DAY WEIGHT
10    10#                        10    10 pounds
15    20                          15    20
20    70                          20    70
25    180                        25    190
30    300                        30    325
35    415                        35    460
40    520                        40    585
45    605                        45    686
50    670                        50    765
55    715                        55    830
60    755                        60    880
65    790                        65    920
70    815                        70    955
75    835                        75    980
80    850                        80    995
85    860                        85    1010 humongous pounds!!!!

I had to do a little bit of guessing to get 10 pounds on the 10th day
and I imagine that the scale actually strethches out a bit at the end,
so that the 860 or 1010 number isn't really reached until the 90th day
or so (most monsters are pollinated around July 4 and are cut around
October 1).

It's interesting for me to note that those growers fortunate enough to
be over 100" in circumference at the 30th day  are growing about 40%
faster than Al Eaton's 10 year average charts.  His charts put one at
100" on the 36th day, as far as I can figure.  I gather from Bob
Marcellus's charts that a 1010 pound pumpkin hits 100" on about the 27th
day and an 860# reaches it on the 29th day.  Sorry to say, I'm not even
close to that.
Do these numbers look about right?








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