RE: Pumpkin size question
- To: "'pumpkins@mallorn.com'"
- Subject: RE: Pumpkin size question
- From: M* C*
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 10:27:10 -0800
Train the vine to grow out the door then set the fruit outside. You can
keep the main root system indoors in the hydroponics. Then the door
shouldn't be a problem as long as you leave it open a crack.
Chris Michalec
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lynda Schemansky [SMTP:lgslgs@bellatlantic.net]
> Sent: Saturday, January 23, 1999 8:06 PM
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com; pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: Pumpkin size question
>
> At 10:22 PM 1/23/99 EST, Pumkinguy@aol.com wrote:
> >If I were you, I would take out the kitchen door right now, and put
> >in a 6 foot sliding glass door. This should allow a thousand pounder if
> the
> >floor doesn't cave in. A troybilt rototiller would roll in easily. My 8N
> Ford
> >Tractor would make it through.
>
> Unfortunately, the kitchen is on the second floor...probably not a very
> good place for your tractor.
>
> I'm still quite new at the hydroponics biz, and am growing all sorts of
> stuff...peas, beans, tomatos, lettuce, watermelon, canteloupe, hot
> peppers,
> cucumbers, cape gooseberries, garden huckleberries strawberries, parlsey,
> basil, oregeon, and endive...all on a 3x3 foot hydroponic table that's
> problably going to be surrounded by a kitchen full of vines in a few more
> weeks. I think a giant pumpkin would fit right in!
>
> The idea is to make my growing mistakes on the current crop, and also use
> it to get a feel for how fast things will grow in a set up like this, and
> after that's all sorted out, come begging for a pumpkin seed to grow a
> giant pumpkin (um...er...to butcher for Halloween).
>
> I checked your archives and saw a few questions about hydroponic pumpkins,
> but nobody admitting to growing them. But in my kitchen, I can control
> the
> pH, the temperature, the lighting, the nutrients, and the water supply
> very
> easily. (The only problem is that door!) So I'll keep reading and
> learning for now, and later if someone can maybe spare a pumpkin seed,
> I'll
> like to let you know how well it grows in a hydroponic set up.
>
> Lynda
>
> PS...you folks are a lot more fun than the hydroponic list!
>
>
>
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