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making such a large fruit? Isn't this normally regulated?

10/13/2003 10:49:03 PM

Arizona

You Have Much to learn my friend!

10/14/2003 12:04:07 AM

Sequim, WA

There's no trick to it. You can make all kinds of things grow bigger if you give them the right herbal formula. For pumpkins, that includes grass, hay and grains that have been processed through the digestive tract of ruminants, leaves composted by microbes, and lots of water. Of course it also requires the use of atlantic giant pumpkin seeds, sunshine, and hard work adjusting the soil nutrient balance and managing the plant. Spend some time here, search the archives, you'll figure it out. At some point a limit may be reached, but we don't seem to be there yet. You too can make it grow from something the size of a ping pong ball to over 1,000 pounds in just 90 days. Nowhere else can this claim be made with the results to back it up. We'll even give you money back..... ahhhh, forget it.

10/14/2003 12:12:39 AM

Deer Park WA

I think some folks feed them milk!

10/14/2003 12:28:49 AM

Puyallup, WA

Quit pulling his leg! You know good and well that they are special seeds that have been bombarded with Protons!

10/14/2003 12:33:20 AM

Grants Pass, Oregon

I thought it was my birth control patches that I have been using. Back to the drawing board. :)

10/14/2003 12:42:24 AM

Applegate, Oregon

You guys got it part righ and part wrong....it has to do with crop circles...you have to entice the magical circle makers to visit the patch when they are heading towards the wheat fields. You bait them with the milk Gerry speaks of, add a couple of cookies and VWAH LAH, they bombard your whole plant with protons. Geez you guys, get it straight!

10/14/2003 12:46:44 AM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

froggy dont take us the wrong way we just like to rib new comers. It saves us from the Pumpkin or Squash debate. Its the seeds, soil and luck

10/14/2003 1:22:48 AM

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Good point Rainydays! The pumpkin is simply the biggest fruit on the planet most probably the biggest ever since the life began. How is it regulated? It’s plant physiology. And why so big? I got a biological explanation looking at Gustavsson’s diary: he saves the pumpkin juice for the next season to fertilize the plant. Maybe the fruit provides nutrients or even growth regulators for successful growth of the seedlings next year. So bigger fruit means more fertilizer for the progeny and higher chance for their survival.
Jernej

10/14/2003 5:11:36 AM

Itzetown City

My god, don´t feed pumpkins with pumpkins or pumpkin juice, that probably would make "bse". Pumpkin-insanity! Insanity!

10/14/2003 5:39:15 AM

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Relax Boenke, microorganisms eat the juice first. It’s like French cheese.

10/14/2003 8:07:42 AM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Froggy where are you from, so we can get you addicted to this insane hobby.

10/14/2003 9:12:26 AM

Oz

i think the "juice" idea is good. one of my AGs went to rot early. i left it thinking that i would get to he seeds later. lol all good seeds sprouted in the pumpkin!
and the vine/root base on some were a half inch thick!
the trick is to,,,,learn
spend
worry
pray
learn some more
watch some die
watch some get eaten
watch some rot for no apparent reason
worry some more.
repeat!
all that aside,when you see the growth you will smile!
my "crop" was on a open trailer in front of my house.
i got horn beeps and cheers! i didnt expect that!
and my first year pumpkins are only 200lbs!
good luck,and dont worry,,,,lool

10/14/2003 9:39:42 AM

Itzetown City

I believe that you grow bigger by all the horn beeps and cheers, but the pumpkin?

10/14/2003 1:59:40 PM

Wood River, Nebraska

froggy,
At some point I'm sure the government may step in and regulate, probably by taxing according to size. Until then my goal will be to grow them big enough that all is needed is to preserve, cut and install windows and doors and there you have single, (or by coupling several together, multiple) family dwellings.

10/14/2003 2:19:14 PM

Oz

lol stewee,,,jack sprat homes,,,

10/14/2003 4:25:50 PM

Wood River, Nebraska

MCP lol...pumpkin eater homes""

10/14/2003 10:45:29 PM

Itzetown City

Song 2 3 4 "We are live in a yellow pumpkin home....."

10/15/2003 3:48:27 AM

Oz

put wheels on it,,,,,"jack sprat trailer trash homes"
no offence to those who live in mobile homes.
i lived in one for four years in a fine neighborhood in houston.

10/15/2003 10:40:30 AM