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Germany

Dear all, a while ago (in late July this year) MR.T. mentioned a potential record (in context of the use of growth hormones)

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/MsgBoard/ViewThread.asp?b=3&p=481745

where it reads:

"...my client for now wishes to remain anonyms. in part to self righteous beaten complainers. He may allow me to reveal after this year. A week ago he was 301" ott at day 30. but still early in the game."

Well, maybe MR.T. can reveal the identity of this grower after this year, as he had mentioned, but it´s still 2.5 months to go until the end of this year and maybe someone of you guys already knows which pumpkin was the one which had 301" OTT at day 30. Since July I was wondering what kind of awesome record breaker this pumpkin might become.

10/15/2013 2:21:02 AM

Torrance, Ca.

It was reveled over a month ago when it blew............


It was sad to see that one go :(

10/15/2013 8:15:37 AM

Belgium

here is some info that might explain alot for some that have studied it well ( yes it isn't about pumpkins but about growth hormones and all kinds of results of it)

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0028825X.1976.10428652

10/15/2013 8:36:15 AM

Belgium

do read it all or you will miss some important things

10/15/2013 8:37:34 AM

Germany

@ETM: Thank you for posting this link.
@So.Cal.Grower: Thank you for the hint, I will check the diaries.

10/15/2013 8:51:57 AM

Torrance, Ca.

Also revealed, to early in the morning ;)

10/15/2013 9:05:58 AM

Belgium

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC396346/pdf/plntphys00193-0021.pdf

10/15/2013 9:18:07 AM

Belgium

http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/REDs/4107.pdf

10/15/2013 9:28:06 AM

Colorado

joel? is that you? seriously, i'm curious, especially if it works....

10/15/2013 11:43:21 AM

NE Kansas

Those who take a shortcut often get cut short.

10/15/2013 11:53:13 AM

Belgium

to be clear: cytokinine ( that's why you use kelp)is the ingredient in kelp that several growers use on their plants and to germ seeds. That's because this hormone is higly active when germing and forming seeds so this is actually nothing new but using it in a concentrated formula might have much greater effect on plants that generally contain alot of seeds. It has been used for decades in fruit farming so no chortcut afterall it has already been proven that it works

10/15/2013 12:08:58 PM

Austin MN

We're is the best place to buy it? I wanna give it a try!

10/15/2013 1:16:57 PM

Belgium

http://www.agriorganics.com/agriculture.php?Pid=1

10/15/2013 1:30:00 PM

Belgium

http://westbridge.com/soil-triggrr/

10/15/2013 1:31:50 PM

Belgium

for the record it isn't anything like Forchlorfenuron.
it's an organic product but more concentrated than the kelp we are using

10/15/2013 1:33:52 PM

Austin MN

can you purchase it off there?

10/15/2013 1:44:50 PM

Little-TON - Colorado

Pete....ItZ the secret ingredient in KDL

10/15/2013 2:53:27 PM

Austin MN

what is the best way to apply it? and in what increments?

10/15/2013 5:12:59 PM

Lodi, California

what about seacrop16? it has 400 ppm cytokinin and organic.

10/15/2013 9:07:05 PM

Lloydminster/AB

Coconut milk...check it....

10/15/2013 9:46:32 PM

Lloydminster/AB

Google sucks now after their last engine update. Now all I get are health nut jobs trying to sell it as a cancer cure....any way it was one of those things I was going to try one day but I thought I should learn to grow properly first.....

10/15/2013 9:57:00 PM

Belgium

some reading for seacrop 116
http://pubs.aic.ca/doi/pdf/10.4141/cjss82-057

10/16/2013 2:01:39 AM

BC, Canada

So.Cal, I'm a little slow, so which kin was it that blew from hormones? You'll have to spell it out for me.
If there is a dairy picture I'd like to see it just cause.
And folks if you want hormones just type in "NAA buy" and Amazon is all over it. Heck you can get 50 gal. drums if you want. Check out your local hydroponics shop. PGRs are all the rage. Medical marijuana grown with known carcinogens- now that's a real paradox.
Read the history of Superthirve which almost everyone has seen or used. Most of you have seen it but if you search for "exploding watermelons" it's a good laugh.
PGRs aren't new, but how they affect pumpkin growth seems to be the question here.
Don, I agree about Google, try using Blekko if you don't want to be tracked for every move you make.

10/16/2013 2:29:53 AM

Eurasia

@ Don Crews
...already checked in the 1940´s at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
There cytoknins were studied as the very frist groth enhancer from plants for plants.
In the 1950 it was shown, that these plantal growth enhancer from coconut does not force cancer but contrary stop most bad cells and helps to fight them.
I do not breed AGs, but for my edible pumpkins I have to use the best fertilizers from winegrowing...and coconut powder. I won´t spray canned coconut milk. I use coconut fruit powder in best food quality as a foliar fertilizer. Costs are 9 € for 1 kg. For my 20 liter backpack sprayer I dissolve 50 g coconut fruit powder plus 50 g citric acid powder and 30 g aminos from slaughterhouse waste in water. These aminos work very good as an adhesive agent too.

10/16/2013 4:42:52 AM

Belgium

dammit thougth we could have one serious post without him, guessed wrong

10/16/2013 6:21:14 AM

Johnston, Iowa

Slaughterhouse waste water + coconut power + citric acid. Sounds like a dare. Yum!

10/16/2013 11:03:43 AM

NE Kansas

Slaughterhouse waste water... edible pumpkins? Yet another farm stand I will not be stopping at...

10/16/2013 2:31:32 PM