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Hanson Ma

What would be the minimum distance to each other you would plant them?

3/6/2017 8:34:46 AM

Albuquerque NM

i do mine about 5 feet

3/6/2017 9:51:39 AM

Upa Creek, MO

Additionally, you can also offset them by a couple feet so one main stump is closer to one side and vice versa. Or if both sides were going to have 10 foot side vines, they would now have 8 foot and 12 foot side vines on opposite sides if you had a 2 foot offset.

3/6/2017 11:10:35 AM

Muddy Waters

My 1947 was planted side by side about 5 feet apart from the 1395(RonBo) Clementz from the 2009 Wallace seed. That would be my minimum

3/6/2017 11:54:05 AM

Ireland

I do mine 4feet apart and have no trouble. But I would keep them further apart if I had the room.

3/6/2017 11:54:14 AM

Muddy Waters

with 12-14 foot secondary's about 750 square foot plant

3/6/2017 11:55:02 AM

Hanson Ma

Ok thanks. I was thinking about 4 feet. Looks like 5 is the number. That gives me 25 foot mains with about 12 ft sides before they would need to be turned if at all. 750 sqft is what each plant is getting too.

3/6/2017 12:26:43 PM

Grittyville, WA

2" apart works.

I dont know what is optimal, but I know this is possible... I grew back to back plants which were germinated in the same 1 gal. pot and not separated and it worked well... no problems at all. 900 lbs off one plant and 1500 lbs off the other... About ten pumpkins total.

If I had allowed the third plant to grow... ?

3,000 lbs of pumpkins out of a single 1 gal pot... ?

Absolutely possible! The limiting factor on growing a single pumpkins to 3,000 is not the limits of the soil in one spot. Keep your hopes up folks ;)

3/6/2017 11:44:17 PM