Re: picture on Web
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: picture on Web
- From: S* T*
- Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 06:51:31 PST
I agree with you Nic,but my hat goes off to Mr. Pacilli for getting
everyone so wild about this. Nice to see it's not "my" butt in a bind
for once.Pumpkinpiper
>From: Welty <ldnwelty@raex.com>
>Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>Subject: Re: picture on Web
>Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 20:01:19 -0500
>
>Rocky is a great guy with interesting ideas and definantly fun to talk
to. The
>picture from the newspaper looks much smaller than the 1400. However,
I believe
>this picture was taken the second week in Oct. and the fruit grew until
Dec. 2.
>Also this may be one of the smaller fruit, 630? Other pictures I have
seen
>indicate it is larger than the pumpkin in this picture. Could be his
measurements
>were not entirely accurate, I know that mine are often different than
those taken
>at weighoff (I estimated my 638 at 616 lb. and the weighoff crew
measured it at 585
>lb). Even if he was off several inches, this is a truly giant
pumpkin. Also to
>note is the fact that when he cut it open there was only a cavity the
size of a
>basketball because of the 20" thick walls. With walls that thick it
definantly
>weighed up pretty high. Once again, Rocky is a friendly person to all
who are
>friendly to him. He has nothing to gain by lying and may not grow
again because of
>all the problems these pumpkins caused. He is very different from all
of us
>pumpkin fanatics and has a completely different moral.
>About the squash, it is not pretty enough to be a squash in my book,
but may
>qualify in official GPC rules which I have rarely seen enforced with
large
>pumpkins.
>Just some thoughts, I hope we can all forget about this for awhile and
focus on the
>upcoming season were who knows, maybe someone else will top 1500 lb.
While we are
>on the subject, it would be interesting to get a range of answers of
just how big
>of a pumpkin the world will produce next year (since we already know
that it will
>come from our own patch).
>
>Nic Welty
>
>p.s. Sometime in the future I will get more Rocky pictures put on my
web page.
>
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