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Otis Orchards WA.

Greetings all,
I'm getting ready to till my first patch for next season, it will be 25' X 75' how many plants will I be able to get into a area this size? Thanks for the help.

10/5/2003 11:45:01 AM

Utah

3 would fit
with 3 plants each would be 25'x25'or 625 sq ft.
a littler on the small size.... but not bad.

10/5/2003 11:52:34 AM

Woodburn, Indiana

i was 24' x 24' and got an 814 off 576 sq feet. so anything is possible

10/5/2003 12:28:36 PM

New Brunswick

I got two weighing around 280 pounds off of a 3 x 3 to 4 x 4 foot (9sq ft- 16 sq ft area) area. Of course the vines could run free but it was all tall grass in the surrounding area. The actual growing area was a filled in clothesline pole hole, about 3 feet deep. The backhoe struck ledge so we scrapped the clothesline idea and used a tree. Then Randy filled in the hole with horse manure...hmmmm....I say to myself "wouldn't that grow a pumpkin plant?" It would and did. One 640 Gardner plant produced two pumpkins around 280 pounds each. One would have weighed much more but it sat on its vine, causing the vine to split just above the pumpkin stem. (My dumb mistake) (The vine I asked for help with a coulple of months ago)

10/5/2003 12:52:57 PM

Belgium

I had a 620lbs pumpkin on 277sq ft, anything is indeed possible with good care

10/5/2003 12:58:32 PM

Mastic Beach, New York

I grew a 560 and 326 on the same plant in 240sqft this year

10/6/2003 7:45:44 AM

Nova Scotia

put only 2

10/6/2003 9:10:35 AM

Stouffville

Why would you say just 2 Mr. T?

I would put in 4, to increase the odds getting the seed with the potential. Once you realize which plants have the genes you want, concentrate on them and let them get a bit bigger.

Remember, you can have a 1000 ft^2 plant, set one fruit on it, but if she don't have the genes, y'ain't gonna get a good result. And every seed is different! Just look at the growth that Carlos is getting on his 790 daletas... I'm sure the 1245Bailey grew just a bit quicker than Don Quijot's fruit.

10/6/2003 1:05:56 PM

Nova Scotia

the reason i say 2 is that a lot of heavey hitter suggest about 30'x30' patch for one as well if Zakar is new at this he may not be able to properly tend to so many plants the first year (i say better to treat one right than 4 bad). but you are right that he should start maybe 8 then after 30 day's pull 4 then at 80 days pull the other 2 (many do not have the heart to pull any, it's tuff). but this is my opinion and we all in the end have to do what's best for us. good luck Zakar what ever you do. p.s. if you can stretch her to 30 x 90 i'd have 3 at the end.

10/6/2003 1:18:58 PM

Nova Scotia

by end i mean when the season is over

10/6/2003 1:23:13 PM

Itzetown City

How much area a plant needs? The one say the more leaves the more juice flows the more largely the fruit. Others say, limited leaves specialize the plant into reproduction and why to waste fertilizer for useless leaves? I don´t know who has right?

DonQ made only one thing right, and that was the whole pumpkin-growing not only the selection of the seeds.
(I hope he makes the right selection too, if he sending the seeds to me.) :-)

10/6/2003 2:07:54 PM

Stouffville

My slowest growing plant had the best fruit growth so my theory would mean that you need to wait till the fruit start to take off...which is the only downside of it, since by that time the plants would be pretty big. note Al Eaton grew a 1236 on a 500ft^2 plant and Drew Papez grew his 1000 pounders on 400ft^2 plants I think...correct me if I'm wrong

10/6/2003 2:56:26 PM

Key West, FL

Quinn Werner would be one to ask about growing small plants. (under 400 sq. ft.)

10/6/2003 3:40:48 PM

Stouffville

I used DonQ's 790 as an example since he most likely grew it the same way as he grew the 600.5 and the 950.4. Just shows you how different each seed is from the same pumpkin. I learned this fact from years of growing pumpkins and not simply by looking at the data accumulated on the aggc website (although that helped too). For instance, who of you has seen the 900 lyons pump out a 1010 in'95, grow another 700lb pumpkin that wanted to go to 900 (it was set on the 4th of august, one of the ones that never left my patch), grow a 660.5 pure squash (not a 'gpc'squash), and also grow a couple 400lbers which were genetically defective as far as a giant pumpkin grower would be concerned in that they grew slow and still cracked on dill rings and ribs. Now if that's not genetic variation among seeds from one fruit I don't know what is.

10/6/2003 4:17:39 PM