The Butterball Family
I used one of my plants (831 Zunino) this year to grow smaller
display pumpkins. I ended up with a total of 17 pumpkins on
this plant, most weighing between 200 and 350 pounds. I
estimate the total combined weight of these pumpkins to be
2,970 pounds!
This pumpkin plant grew in an 800 square foot plot. That works
out to 3.8 pounds of pumpkin per square foot of patch! Most of
these pumpkins I removed from the vine when they reached about
200 pounds - none were allowed to mature fully on the vine.
I ended up with a wonderful family of pumpkins - some so orange
that they hurt your eyes in bright sun. The biggest was
Blunderbuss at 353 pounds. This was the nicest shaped and
colored pumpkin of the bunch. Butterbuns wowed them at Elk
Grove and Butternut was a smash hit at my daughter's first
grade class. Butterbaby (267 lbs) was donated to charity and
was auctioned off for $225. Each member of the Butterball
family has a story....
If you'd like to meet the whole family, go to this link:
http://home.pacbell.net/diana_do/butterball.htm
I assume that 3,000 pounds on one plant is not a record, but I
figure it is probably about max. for 800 square feet.
vince
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