Re: To weigh or not to weigh

Last year we saw a guy bring an 847# pumpkin which had a split...no rot or
soft spot yet, just a split.  He brought it in hopes of not being
disqualified, but was.  Everyone really appreciated his bringing the big P,
and we got his name a visited him this fall.  Personally, as long as you
dont expect to be in the competition,  I would take the monster and get a
weight.

Congratulations on the monster!

At 08:04 PM 10/8/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Almost a month ago I reported that my biggest pumpkin had a rib split hole
>that I thought had gone to the cavity. The hole was small and so I thought
>"why not see how much longer I can get it to grow". I used a new technique
>to seal the hole. All went well until last Monday when I noticed some
>softening around the hole. The softening has now extend to be a 6-8" circle.
>I planned on taking the pumpkin to Canby this weekend just to get an
>official "for display only" weighing. I am now torn about moving a pumpkin
>to a public arena with this much softening, concerned about what the proper
>pumpkin growers etiquette is on this issue and seek this list's input. I am
>sure I wouldn't care so about getting this bad girl weighed were it not for
>the fact that she has a circumference of 157", which charts out as 834 lbs.
>Now this is pushing towards the Oregon state record of 866 lbs. I have to
>ask myself "how many 800 lb pumpkins do you think you will ever grow bucko,
>and why didn't you drive to Carnation, Wa last weekend?"
>
>What to do, what to do.
>
>(Is this the fun part?)
>
>
>Mike in Oregon
>
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