Re: Giant pumpkins
Great story.....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Toby" <mr-sprout@sbcglobal.net>
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 1:12 PM
Subject: RE: Giant pumpkins
> "Some think it was all myth but I knew a farmer that used a syringe and
> icebox and he grew 700 lb in the late 60s."
>
> Howard Dill (a Canadian) set his first world record in 1979 with a
> weight of 438.5 pounds.
>
> On Bigpumpkins.com you will occasionally hear of a reclusive upstate New
> York farmer named "Jill" who was growing 1000+ pound pumpkins in the
> 70s. Nobody knows much about her, except that she doesn't like
> publicity, and does her very best to avoid attracting attention (sounds
> just like an AG farmer, huh?). Very secretive, she is, and seems to
> have figured out all our growing secrets 20 years ahead of everyone
> else. It's rumored that she found it more and more difficult to hide
> her giants, though, and moved to an undisclosed location where she is
> now producing 2000+ pounders. All these years no one with a camera has
> managed to spot Jill or her handiwork, as she has managed to conceal her
> prize pumpkins from photographers throughout the decades, and first-hand
> accounts are seldom reported, although they do surface every now and
> then.
>
> Of course, I don't know this first hand. I just read it somewhere. My
> guess is that she's shacked up with a Sasquach somewhere on the Canadian
> border. :-D
>
> Toby
>
> mr-sprout@sbcglobal.net
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
> Of Philip J. Vigna
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 3:38 PM
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Cc: pjs_uno@hotmail.com
> Subject: Giant pumpkins
>
> Hi from Victoria BC Canada. I'm new to actually trying to grow giant
> pumpkin but new about them years ago when they used creamo to surrogate
> them. Some think it was all myth but I knew a farmer that used a
> swringe
> and icebox and he grew 700 lb in the late 60s. But that's old stuff.
>
> I tried finding a site to get information, get on a mailing list but
> can't
> seem to download it or something so am contacting you.
>
> My giant pumpkin at home sorta peedered out...its only 43 inches in
> circumference and now the stem is rotting. I guess anything could be
> the
> problem not enough good soil, no bugs are detected, anyways can I
> salvage
> the pumpkin as is? Make pumpkin pies from it? It hasn't turned orange
> yet...if I can harvest it now, what do I have to do and how long before
> it
> is ready to cut apart. I have another pumpkin at work, i work at golf
> course its not growing anymore either but stem is fine so far.
>
> Thank you for you time and valuable information.
>
> Philip
>
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