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Friday, September 25, 2020
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joe w
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Minnesota
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Family picture with this years big 3. I was pretty excited about my pumpkins up to the beginning of August. Around the middle of August they ended up hitting a wall and I�m not completely sure why, but most likely disease. I�ve been growing giants for over 10 years now and I�ve learned to cut a lot of corners while still getting pretty big pumpkins. Some of the interesting facts about this season was
1. I tilled in fertilizer in April and didn�t put on any other fertilizer for the rest of the season.
(I did one fertilizer app last year too on my pumpkin that went 15% heavy @ 1754lbs)
2. This year I went with all over head watering. I had one $5 sprinkler watering 3 plants.
3. No amendments/myco for vine burying.
4. No fungicide through irrigation
5. I Only used companion and actinovate through backpack sprayer up to middle of August when they hit the wall. Then I used Subdue and eagle but was probably too late. I got mildew pretty bad.
6. My 1754 last year had a 10 day average peak of 29lbs per day. I had 4 pumpkins this year have a 10 day average over 40lbs a day with my 1304 �middle� having a 10 day average over 50 lbs per day
7. I used only my own 1304 werner and 1941 werner seeds. Except a 692 ailts X 1304middle for fun.
8. My 1304 middle taped 1750 in August and only grew 5� in September.
I�m not sure if I�ll get any official weights this year but the actual weights of my big three in pic were: 1941middle 1527lbs, 1304 middle 1778lbs, 1304north 1583lbs. I had another 1304 that peaked over 50lbs a day too but only ended up a little over 1500lbs. The 692 ailts x 1304 middle Last estimated at 314lbs and was grown on around 100sq ft plant.
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