Ok so i guess i over did it!!! I should have posted this a while back. The pumpkin is a lot bigger then it looks in the picture i should have measured the cir but on day 10 it started growing like gang busters and it popped. I had a cover on the pumpkin that i had taken off and this picture was taken after it had been in the direct sun for a few days while i was out of town. The explosion happened over night and the growth stopped immediately.