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Sunday, September 13, 2026
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Gourdzilla
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San Diego, Ca.
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Day 20 and I wasn't too impressed with the growth so far as it was a couple days behind my best pumpkin I have grown (the 1601). But around day 20 it turned out to be the turning point of my take it easy, relaxing approach to the season as the pumpkins growth kicked into gear and started blowing away PB daily weigh gains growing like I had never seen before. Now the season had become serious! It was time to put myself in gear and give this pumpkin everything I had. The pumpkin put on an average of 55 pounds a day for 3 weeks straight reaching a height of 64 Lbs. a day. By day 30 the pumpkin was sitting at a very respectable 630 lbs. I was having a hard time believing my tape and had to measure twice on a few occasions. I'm sure my neighbors had to have heard me saying "no way!" more than once. I've had growth in the 40's before, but nothing like this. I was telling Norm that this plant was doing amazing things! Around day 35 I starting to get nervous thinking this thing was going to split open and actually did start splitting the stem so I backed off the water to try and throttle it down just a bit but it didn't even seem to really faze it. My wife said we should name it Secretariat because it was just like he was. running his own race.
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