Re: Did I do this right?

I forgot that you had other plants.  glad to hear it.  so you still have
lots of good opportunities.  it sounds like there is enough of a plant
there to still grow a pumpkin on.  if you are running out of room you
might have to cut out a plant or cut off the ends of lots of vines.  try
to keep the dogs out of the plant.   did you cut the tap root on
intersection on the pumpkin that you were triing to readjust?

my update:
I had a late start this year after baking some of my seeds in the oven
accidentally !!! ( that was a hugh OUCH !!!)  a grower nearby saved me
by giving me a plant he had started and some seeds.  I had two plants: a
Holland 742 and a LaRue 761.   the Holland plant was aboout 3-4 weeks
ahead of the LaRue -  last week i cut out the LaRue plant.  the Holland
secondaries were running through the LaRue - i even had a female show up
right next to the stump of the LaRue.  I only have room for one plant in
my backyard garden.  i was hoping for some male flowers from it but it
just wasn't happening.  So all of my pumpkins are pollenated from the
same plant.   I pollenated my first pumpkin a week ago today.  since
then i have pollenated 9 more.  the females are showing up like crazy
now-  on the main vine and almost all the longer secondaries a female
shows up every third junction.  the biggest pumpkins are just bigger
than a softball,  but i worry that all these will abort because it has
been over 90° F every day for a week.   A real heat wave for the Seattle
area.  so i keep watering in the afternoon instead of the morning to
cool them off.  also i keep pollenating, just in case.  it can be
frustrating-  last saturday i had three females blossom and no males.
this morning i had 1 female and  8 males blossom.  i almost contacted
other growers to get males- but with home, work and family in from out
of town i just didn't have the time, and with all the other females up
and coming I figured  I would be OK.  my plant is about 25 x 35 ft . the
secondaries on one side have grown out of the garden onto the lawn.  I
have to worry about kids and kids playing with balls in my patch. The
plant has suffered some leave damage do to the heat.   luckly i haven't
had any problems with bugs, but this is my first year in this area and i
expected them to get worse each year from now on.  

I wish i had all those extra plants, that you have. ...but,  I see in
your future that you will be very very busy - watering, fertilizing,
pollenating, piching and purning, shading, spraying,  pumpkin and vine
adjusting, etc, etc...

good luck !
Gordon Tanner
Maple Valley, WA 

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Gordon,
This plant was starting to run out into the woods
and not much bare earth out there. On 7-28 the
estimated weight was 77.68 lbs. Stem is very low
to the ground and I've tried to move it up very slowly
a little at a time with no success.The garden runneth
over and much crowding is taking place. This is
the plant that I thought wouldn't make it. Plant and
learn, and since I am a first year grower, that stuff
is gonna happen. The main is still about 16-18 feet
long with pumpkin located about half way out. I
think a dog had broken some of the secondaries
about 2 weeks ago and some of them were dead
at the point of the break with some broken at the
junction with the main anyway. But, if this one
doesn't make it, I've already got 4 more giants on
3 other vines, and 10 more plants that should be
bearing flowers any day now (and that includes
the Castellucci's and the Kunde's, which is really
the BIGGIES I'm waiting for). Thanks for the input
and for posting the formula for estimating weight.
By the way, how's your plants doing?

Scott in Alabama
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