Re: What's the deal?

I think there isn't enough information to make an accurate assesment of
it's growth.  No offense pumpkin master.  The biggest question i would ask
would be, is this the rate it always grew at?  or no?  Some pumpkins chug
along, then have a growth spurt.  While others jump right out of the gate,
hit a growth sprut, then slowly decrease in daily gains.  Then there are
others that just chug along and never hit a growth spurt that would be
capable to sustain a large weighted pumpkin.  I had one last year, that
never really had a huge growth spurt worth mentioning, just chugged along
all season, then i had another one that went from 48 pounds at 2 weeks old,
to 200 pounds at 3 weeks old.  It hit a growth spurt at 3 weeks.  My
biggest from this year hit it's growth spurt in it's 4th week, and put on
178.5 pounds, it is now slowing, as it should be, but at a nice slow pace.
So, at 22 days old, it's just over 3 weeks old, in my opinion that's way
too early to say if it's going to "make it" or not.  you just have to wait
and see what happens

scott

T



  From my experience it will not speed up.  Some pumpkins just don't have
it.  But then again you may not have done what was needed to get a big one
going


>From: Martsmth@aol.com
>Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>Subject: What's the deal?
>Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 06:35:51 EDT
>
>My pumpkin is only growing about 2 or 3 inches OTT a day, it's about 22
>days
>old or so, and at 121 1/4 OTT is it going to keep going this slow, or will
>it
>kick up for awhile?
>     -Marty Max
>
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