Re: Utah's climate--latitude and humidity
I really think that you have to look at one other factor. When you only
have 15 people growing pumpkins in a state, there might be less of a
chance that someone will pop a biggie. Some of it is numbers. I think
that our night time temps do us the most damage, however. I read once
that the pumpkin does most of it's growing at night. If you consider the
fact that our night time temp falls very fast here, then you might have
part of it. Heck, I was able to grow a 360 pound pumpkin my first year
doing everything wrong. That was in the coldest part of the state
(Logan). I say grow where you are.
Good Growing,
Jon in Utah, USA
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On Tue, 16 Feb 99 12:27:49 -0800 Matthew.Isom@granite.k12.ut.us (Matthew
Isom) writes:
>So latitude isn't a big factor? I was wondering about hours of
>daylight,
>but since I haven't seen any real huge AGs out of Alaska (they grow a
>pretty mean cabbage I hear), I guess we don't really need more than
>14-15
>hours of sunlight.
>I did look up Simcoe, Ontario in the Atlas the other day and noticed
>that
>it's nestled between about as much water as any place in the world.
>I'm
>wondering about the humidity there (very high I'll bet) and thinking
>that
>somehow high humidity is advantageous to AGs. Would misters or
>over-head
>sprinkling increase my humidity and give me more vigorous plants?
>While we're on the topic of good and bad places to grow AGs, what do
>you
>guys think--are there some places in the world that you would THINK
>should be great for growing really big pumpkins but that haven't been
>tried yet? How about Tahiti, where it's between 80 and 90 degrees
>about
>360 days out of the year? How about Germany or Ireland? What are the
>
>pro's and con's of these places?
>
>
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