The RIU pumpkin boasting thread.

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Does basil count as a pumpkin?


I should have thrown something in there for scale - on the left is the size my plants usually get.

 

[1kemosabe]

I was investigating my pumpkin situation and something just wasnt right. I had waaay to many flowers than what i usually have. So after some more investigation it seems during the seeding process (dad makes hole in dirt, kids drop seed then cover) the younger boys decided they wanted to grow "small sugar" pumpkins and fail to tell me about it.

So, i surely wont have the largest, but im sure we will have quite a bunch.

Grow on !

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I was investigating my pumpkin situation and something just wasnt right. I had waaay to many flowers than what i usually have. So after some more investigation it seems during the seeding process (dad makes hole in dirt, kids drop seed then cover) the younger boys decided they wanted to grow "small sugar" pumpkins and fail to tell me about it.

So, i surely wont have the largest, but im sure we will have quite a bunch.

Grow on !

My sugar pumpkins are ripe already and the vines are going south in a hurry. But I have sprouts on the "big" pumpkins I planted the other day. The man said they could get up to 30-40 pounds, so we will see what I can do with them.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

Here goes. Sprouts are up. And part of the phone book is nearby, just in case it need to make a call.

 

[Happygirl]

Porcelain Doll patch pink pumpkins charity goes to breast cancer. Will supply picture of patch. Suppose to be large.

 

[Happygirl]

Here's the Porcelain Doll patch, very large pumpkins, I will be pinching off quite a few since my space is small.

 

[Happygirl]

Here's packet description.

 

[Happygirl]

Night Queen Green Beans they are a deep purple almost black bean cooks up green. I am all for neat plants.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I side dressed and hoed the 2 rows of pumpkins.

Then I planted a row of the "Big Max" seeds I picked up a couple weeks ago. The man at the feed and seed store said they could get up to 30-40 pounds. No match to the giants you guys are growing, but bigger than the Sugar Baby's that I had.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

So far no sprouts from the Big Max seeds. Today is a good Above Ground day, so I will go ahead and plant the rest of them in the same hills.

But the other pumpkins are getting ready to vine. I need to get a little more fertilizer to them while I can, before they take off.

 

[TWS]

The patch . I got pumpkins
Lol !
The one in the picture I broke off the vine trying to stand it up right but I got more . It was the size of a watermelon

 

[TWS]

So far no sprouts from the Big Max seeds. Today is a good Above Ground day, so I will go ahead and plant the rest of them in the same hills.

But the other pumpkins are getting ready to vine. I need to get a little more fertilizer to them while I can, before they take off.

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Damn bra ! Blowing it up !

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

View attachment 3736612 View attachment 3736613 The patch . I got pumpkins
Lol !
The one in the picture I broke off the vine trying to stand it up right but I got more . It was the size of a watermelon

Looking good. You are much further along than I am.

 

[TWS]

Looking good. You are much further along than I am.

So tell me , do you have to set the pumpkin upright so it doesn't grow flat ?
Is it possible ?

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

So tell me , do you have to set the pumpkin upright so it doesn't grow flat ?
Is it possible ?

It's been years since I grew any of the giant ones, but I remember us adjusting them as they grew so they wouldn't get on the vines. We never did it, but I have seen folks grow them on pallets so it will be easier to move later on.

 

[Amshif87]

Night Queen Green Beans they are a deep purple almost black bean cooks up green. I am all for neat plants.

Here's my purple beans and my other purple produce.

 

[Amshif87]

I planted one giant pumpkin plant in the side yard of my house where I grow comfrey. It's super rocky and weedy and I forgot about it too yesterday when I went and hacked down all the weeds. It was there pale and tiny under all the tall shit. It's got some sunlight and I hit it with some 5-5-5. I'll try and snap a pic tomorrow. It's early it could still come back but I doubt it'll produce anything boast worthy.

 

[Amshif87]

Here's my tiny little giant pumpkin plant. Lol. I put in a Gatorade bottle for scale. Speaking of forgotten plants, I've got these little garden huckleberry plants a friend gave me a month or 3 ago. They are producing 3 berries each. I probably should have put them in the ground.

 

[757growin]

I'm biting of @mwooten102 with the hog panel usage. Grapes next to watermelon next to tomatoes.

Got some watermelons going now, see how long the vines can hold

Sorry though no pumpkins this year

 

[Smidge34]