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nOVA sCOTIA

Does the shape of the bottom of the pumpkin(concave or flat)have anything to do with a pumpkin going over or under the chart?

10/4/2012 1:28:48 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Mine was flat as a board this year still weighted light...I think it has to do a lot with soil moisture and genetics

10/4/2012 1:32:33 PM

Colorado

No-relax

10/4/2012 1:39:45 PM

Little-TON - Colorado

CoJoe....How can that be? I say YES...worry

10/4/2012 1:46:29 PM

Stanwood, Washington

Well if everything else about the pumpkin is exactly the same a pumpkin with a concave bottom is going to have less volume so it would go lighter than the same pumpkin with a flat bottom. The real question is if there is any relationship between bottom shape and wall thickness.

10/4/2012 1:50:52 PM

Cheshire,Ma

Mine was concave and went 4% heavy.

10/4/2012 2:07:37 PM

Belgium Europe

Concave bottom = smaller cavity

10/4/2012 2:27:13 PM

Minnesota([email protected])

I don't see how a concave bottom equals less weight. If all is the same(including the thickness of the bottom pumpkin wall), I would think a concave bottome would make it a little heavier, as it has more surface area.

10/4/2012 2:49:36 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

Most pumpkins that we have had that are concave-ish on the bottom, are very thick on the inside of the pumpkin at that spot...

10/4/2012 2:56:43 PM

Central Minnesota

Concave for me always seems to mean light unless the blossom is way underneath in the middle of the pumpkin and that is the reason it is concave. That shape seems to go heavy.

10/4/2012 3:03:50 PM

Germany

Let´s imagine a pumpkin which is shaped like a ball...now imagine it will press itself down to the ground to develop a flat bottom: same amount of material, but the OTT of the ball is getting smaller...and now imagine that it would press itself further down while flipping the flat bottom towards inside, i.e., to develop a concave bottom (the extreme case would be a ball without cavity, two halves into each other: still same amount of material, but OTT is getting smaller. This model would predict a correlation between concave and +%.

10/4/2012 3:32:00 PM

Germany

...BTW, this year I had a pumpkin with some % heavy and a really concave bottom, and a light pumpkin with a flat bottom, but that probably doesn´t mean anything, because of further different variables (tissue quality, wall thickness etc.).

10/4/2012 3:33:42 PM

Connecticut

Mine was a little concave and went 17% heavy.

10/4/2012 3:44:07 PM

Muddy Waters

Well I have a melon cave & a kin cave.Sounds like I need a concave.We will see.

10/4/2012 5:09:40 PM

Nova Scotia,Canada

Carl did you crawl under the Mold Monster today?...did you tickle her huge belly?.:))

10/4/2012 5:56:45 PM

nOVA sCOTIA

no crawling under MM Ben.I don't remember the last time i saw it's blossom.I do know it is very concave.Trying to get an idea on whether its a good thing or not.:)

10/4/2012 6:15:19 PM

Nova Scotia,Canada

I`m thinking she got so hungry she ate her own blossom..no wonder you can`t find it...:)))

10/4/2012 6:18:21 PM

Anamosa, IA [email protected]

I have had concave bottoms with very little cavity and weigh right on the chart. But those were 600 to 700#, not 1900#+.

10/5/2012 5:25:57 PM

West [email protected]

shoot look at the Freak 2, the blossom end looks like it's got a giant fat ass either that or thats the mouth where they feed it the small children.

I always wondered when they engulf there blossom on the bottom don't you risk breaking it off by having it on the bottom when you got to lift it and set it down ?

10/5/2012 10:34:02 PM

Frankfort Ohio

i have had a big concave bottom on a 600lb fruit that was 21% heavy good luck and who cares its still one hell of a pumpkin no matter the weight ! great job

10/5/2012 10:42:27 PM

Massachusetts

carl, i have a big concave bottom, but this is because my wife sits in my lap every day, and she is 25% heavy...

10/6/2012 5:26:39 AM