Re: Pumpkin Growth

In a message dated 9/14/2002 11:01:46 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Lubadub@aol.com writes:


have no proof of this but I think that even after the pumpkins stop gaining
in circuference as the begin to mature that the walls of the pumpkin continue
to grow and therefore for awhile the pumpkin continues to gain weight. There
is hardly anyway to know this for certain unless you did borings or used
ultrasound.to measure wall thickness.

Marv in Altoona


Hi Marv
I believe the same thing. I have had many pumpkins that have stopped adding inches and one of the things I have always done is slap the pumpkins (I think they like it rough) anyways you can tell the thickness as you lightly slap them open handed. I can almost tell for sure they are picking up wall thickness or density because of the diffences you hear in sound. Try it and let me know.
You want to hear a major difference go to your weigh off sight and pick a green squash and a pretty orange pumpkin that is the same size. I will be you almost in every case the squash sounds like you are thumping on a piece of wood while the pumpkin has much more of a hallow sound.
Good Luck and let them grow!
Bill Garvey
PS, I do know that a pumpkin that is picked can loose as much as 10 pounds in a day.
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