Re: The Butterball Family
- Subject: Re: The Butterball Family
- From: "chad morse" j*@columbus.rr.com
- Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 10:28:07 -0500
- List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/pumpkins/> (Web Archive)
Wow! Cool link. Did you let some of them grow on their bottoms to get them
so short and wide?
I love the bright orange color! Any help for seeds that will give me that
BRIGHT orange color?
You can e-mail me privately if you would like jmorse2@columbus.rr.com
Chad
----- Original Message -----
From: "vince" <anaid_tecuod@yahoo.com>
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 6:56 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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