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Yes! Nature is amazing!

The most likely problem is that your soil is too cold and hasn't yet warmed up. I install soil heating cables in the ground before I transplant my seedlings, and I accidentally cut one of them with a rototiller right around transplant time. That seedling shut down the minute I planted it, and the other one took off. The smaller one is just starting to get going now, thanks to warmer days and a greenhouse, plus heating it at night. It's probably less of a fertilizer thing than it is a cold thing. In fact, I'm barely doing any fertilizer right now, just a little bit of fish/seaweed and humic/fulvic acid. I would give it a few more weeks and see if it perks up as the temperatures rise. When compared to prior years, my seedlings were not very big compared to how they are this year, so your season is far from over!

I would avoid watering it too much. I usually only water once a week, maybe twice a week this time of year. You don't want your roots to get too wet/cold and rot. If anything, less water may be a little better because it will encourage the roots to dig down (translation - get bigger) to find more water. Once the pumpkin fruit gets started, that's a different story. Then you want to pound the water to it!

@@pumpkinista thank you for the detailed reply! Seems like u took a lot of time to write that!👍

That is awesome ❤❤

You want to know week by week how much it grows? I'll do my best to show progress. Wait until you see when the actual pumpkin starts growing!

Awesome, I hope my videos help! Feel free to reach out with any questions, and good luck! You may get addicted 🙂.

I've used peat pots and "cow pots" before, but I'm not really a fan. I feel like they dry out quickly, and I'm not convinced the roots will be able to penetrate / break through and the pot to break down quick enough for it to be able to spread out like it needs to. I remember seeings someone's video where they pulled up a giant pumpkin plant that was only a few weeks old, and the roots had already spread out over 3 feet! I feel like the roots would still be trying to break through a peat pot in that time frame, but I've never actually looked into it that detailed.

It is possible to grow it without fertilizer; just don't expect to break any records. But you could still get several hundred pounds, and even over a thousand if your soil is in good shape. Your limited space will be more of an issue than anything. If you grow a giant pumpkin with just a main vine, It will be bigger than a regular pumpkin grown in the same amount of space, but you will be severely limiting its potential. Growers have grown pumpkins over a thousand pounds in as little as 150 ft², so you can theoretically grow big pumpkins in small spaces even if it's smaller than that. If that's all you have for options, I say give it a go and see what happens!

@@pumpkinista I'm not aim for giant I'm growing for normal size pumpkins

@@shanesimpson8213 I think it's worth a try!

When it's a seedling, I don't water much at all. I like to encourage the roots to dig deeper. As long as the soil is a little moist when I dig down, I don't water. Maybe once a week in the beginning. Once it is a full size plant with a pumpkin growing, I water heavily 1-2 times a day to keep the soil moist, but not completely saturated to the point where there are puddles on top. I don't measure how much water I use, but a lot of growers use over 100 gallons per plant per day. Most plants are 900 ft² or greater (30ft x 30ft).

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No, I'm now broke 😂

I agree 💯!

There's pool noodles on them providing cushioning. Maybe that's part of why everything looks weird/fake.

Yeah, most likely. ​@@pumpkinista

I'm not sure what trees those are, but we do have a lot of maples in the area! 🍁 And yes, the pumpkin is about 1300 pounds bigger than me 🙂.

That is very true! It's actually a compliment that my pumpkin is so big that people think it's fake 🙂.

​@@pumpkinistaWhen you're playing so good the moderators investigate you if you're cheating.

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You are correct! This was taken at the top of the hill going into downtown Bangor. The pumpkin was grown nearby in Veazie 🙂.

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I know! That couldn't have gone better with the wind! Nature just had to show everybody that I did it wrong 😂.

Haha! I almost added a blooper at the end where I said, "I hope I hit record!"

I put my heating cables in the ground... They worked... And then I sliced into it with the rototiller 😭. While I was tilling, I was considering making a video, warning people not to till up their heating cables 🙄.

Haha! I always forget something in my transplant holes too! I'm excited about the 1832 Graham as well. It was my smallest seedling because it only had one cotyledon, but it'll catch up!

If you have the Rootshield powder, you could add it to water and water it in. Not sure about the granules though.

Thanks for the recommendation! Hope your seedlings are doing well and staying nice and warm!

why exactly?

@@Ka07Je I don’t know I the gnat larvae

I think my burning is from the light because I've used all different types of potting soil (some of which have no nutrients at all), and they still burn. They are burning a lot less with the light a little higher. I've heard some people say that low humidity can play a factor as well, which is very possible in my house. I do not use DaVinci Resolve. I use my boyfriend's subscription of Adobe Premiere Pro 🙂. If we ever stop paying for it, that looks like a great alternative.

@@pumpkinista Have you heard of the app phototone? It allows you to know the PPFD(light intensity) that your plant is experiencing so you can keep it at an acceptable level. It’s a few bucks but worth it I’d say.

@@nicksbigpumpkin8050 No I have never heard of it, but thanks for the recommendation. That's sounds like something I need badly!

That's how I got into growing pumpkins too! I moved into my new house, and the old owner's jack-o'-lantern from the previous year started growing out of the compost pile. As long as you can keep the plant alive, you can totally grow a big pumpkin!

That would be a great video in itself 😂

I have a Canon 5D Mark IV. It has a time lapse feature that automatically puts all the photos into a video file. I had it taking a photo every 20 minutes. I had to crop out the nighttime shots because it only auto-focuses once and won't change the camera settings automatically when the lights go off.

@@pumpkinista well it looks really great. You are “upping the game” when it comes to giant pumpkin vids for sure.

Thanks for the feedback! I'm trying!