I hope you don't mind Gus -- Duncan McAlpine, Federal Way, WA m*@eskimo.com Why buy plants when you can grow them yourself.....? http://www.eskimo.com/~mcalpin/ http://www.eskimo.com/~mcalpin/pumkin.html
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- Subject: ESTIMATING WEIGHT OF GIANT PUMPKINS
- From: f*@magi.com (Gus Saunders)
- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 18:07:51 +0100
ESTIMATING WEIGHT OF GIANT PUMPKINS The best way to estimate (accent on the word estimate) the weight of giant pumpkins is the over-the-top method and using the table presented by Len Stellpflug of Rush, NY. Competitive growers, including the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Growers, pretty much all use it. When comparing pumpkins rather than say the estimated weight, we often give the over-the-top measurements ie "Tim's pumpkin measures 306 inches" instead of "weighs an estimated 576 lbs." Dan Gardner now has a copy of this table and the notes that go with it and he is going to Email it out to all of us in the immediate future. We do not have the computer support equipment to put it out from this end. You should measure at least the circumference of your chosen fruit every day, hopefully at the same time. It should show increased value every day. Do the 3-way over-the-top measurements irregularly. If the measurements don't increase, you have a problem - your pumpkin has stopped growing. For Bill and Cecilie in Owen Sound - there really is no average specific gravity for a giant pumpkin. You can never be sure of the thickness of the walls and the size of the cavity. All the best! Gus
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