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Friday, July 22, 2022
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Captain 97
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Stanwood, Washington
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I am a little obsessive with my measuring and I measure the circumference of each of my pumpkins every day. I have all that data written down so I decided to plug it into Excel so I can compare the growth curve of my pumpkins to years past and get an idea how big it will likely end up being. Circumference is not the best correlation to weight but in general it will give a good approximation of relative growth rate. This is a chart comparing my biggest three pumpkins to this years 1872 Sippel seed. You can that It got a better start than my personal best but at this point it is not growing as fast as that one was at this age and it's likely to get passed up. The 1872 is smaller than my second largest at this age but its tracking the slope pretty well. If it can hold its trajectory a little longer than my second biggest did it's got a chance to beat it. I am hoping that the larger plant size will allow it to maintain its peak growth a little longer than I have in years past. I think It could make it to 1000 pounds. It is well ahead of my third biggest but that one went 25% above its estimated weight so that's not a surprise.
On another topic this makes it pretty clear to me that I should have left my 1223 on the vine a couple more weeks. It had plenty of room left in the growth curve. Probably could have pushed it towards 1500 with a few more weeks.
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