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Saturday, March 16, 2013
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Pumpking
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Germany
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Couple of times I had noticed the questions arising as to the ideal patch size, both on the message board and also asking this question myself. Therefore, in March 2012 I have analyzed the correlation between the square footage of a patch and the average pumpkin weight for the following four seeds (1385.5 Jutras, 1161 Rodonis, 985 Werner, 998,6 Pukos), which have been planted quite often within a narrow time frame (i.e., which therefore did enjoy or should have had a chance to enjoy a similar standard of AG cultivation, similar knowledge of the grower). From pumpkinlink.com I had picked a list of all their progeny from 800 lbs up, had searched for their plants square footage on aggc and have Excel�d the results. The results sort of confirm that 500-600 sqft should already be an excellent area for an AG patch.
Let�s start with the 985 Werner and 998.6 Pukos. In the top diagram you can see all pumpkins analyzed, and in the bottom diagram you can see all pumpkins from areas of 500+ sqft. Now we can see that the pumpkins on areas less than 500 sqft cause a steep skew of the trend line, whereas the trend line is much more flattened when we leave those pumpkins out of the analysis�there�s not so much average weight increase per square footage from 500 to 1000 sqft.
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