RE: Pumpkin size question
- To: "'pumpkins@mallorn.com'"
- Subject: RE: Pumpkin size question
- From: K* a* D*
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 01:07:23 -0000
Maybe you could use a pet door (the type for dogs and cats) to let the vine move outside. Just a thought...
-----Original Message-----
From: Michalec, Chris [SMTP:cmicha@chmc.org]
Sent: Monday, January 25, 1999 6:27 PM
To: 'pumpkins@mallorn.com'
Subject: RE: Pumpkin size question
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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