Re: The Butterball Family

inspiring stuff vince!!!


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From: "vince" <anaid_tecuod@yahoo.com>
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 11:56 PM
Subject: 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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