Grow a Giant Pumpkin - Stump and Stem maintenance
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2022
- Here are a few tips on how to keep those stumps and stems happy on your giant pumpkin plants.
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I just found you! Incredibly helpful video! I am starting super late and in the back of my suburban yard just for family fun… but I do love to garden!
I’ll be happy with 100 pounds!
It’s awesome listening to you!!
Best info in the game!
Lol I use the same scissors for the same reason in our gardening. Thanks for the advice. First year with a real giant pumpkin. I’m in Miami Manitoba. I had one seed out of 8 that survived to outside planting. Only three made it through germination. I should have scarified more. Two plants I lost to a cold snap in our small greenhouse. The the third was a late comer and only had one leaf come out and was negligent and forgotten about. I then nursed “Nemo” to become a monster treated like a tomato plant planter and all just bigger pots more transplants. I hope to grow something big this. Right as of July 25 grapefruit size. With three tennis ball sized pumpkins. The ideal one is in a good location for access. I found a stressed plant will
Come back stronger. I appreciate the vids helps me know how to handle our monsters here. My daughter named the pumpkin plant nebo after our hill here.
Thanks again.
Great informative video Chad. First year giant pumpkin grower and appreciate your shared experiences that has helped me get off to a good start this year. Crossing my fingers it will continue.
Awesome Doug!! Keep er going, let me know how you do.
Great video chad
Thanks Lee.
2nd year grower that miserably failed in year 1....learning a ton from you! Thanks!
You get better every year!
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That 1676 is a beauty.
Several people are growing it this year. Seems to be doing well.
And thanks for all the info !
Any time!
Yet another awesome video Chad !
Great to see you last weekend man! Keep pushing all Aug and Sept!
Go Niners!
Heck yeah! Looking forward to seeing our new hot shot QB this year.
I can't see the stem of my pumpkin. Should I turn it? Leave it? How do I check it?
Question: My pumpkin fruited a female bud and after a week or so of growth, it became mushy and very soft skinned, like touching a water balloon. It tore, so I had to cut it off. Why might this happen? Solutions? I am a backyard gardener, growing Cherokee Tan pumpkins in Oregon.
Sometimes they just dont take. For whatever reason they can just abort some time. That is why most growers always have a backup or two.
If you were to grow two pumpkins per plant would they even grow to half the size of one of these individually grown pumpkins?
You would grow two BIG ones, but not 1 monster.
Do you need a secondary vain attached to your main pumping vain ?
Yes, secondary vines are very important!
Awesome content again Chad! I had to cut the secondary at the punpkin to make more room for it and the main... but I see you somehow snaked-it up and around and out the other side? Do you ever recommend cutting that secondary off? Thanks!! (BTW, I am at 23DAP on the 2021 Chad New seed... so far so good!!)
Howie I did flip around the vine on the 1676, this is the first time I have done this. Sometimes I try to spin them around the pumpkin and sometimes I cut them off. The more vines the better but in the end I dont think that it's THAT big of a deal if you take it off.
how big is your pumpkin? Probably at about day 30 now.
@@ColoradoGiants yes! I am struggling with bugs and disease, but your seed has been my best plant (out of 6 that I started with) any tips or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Here's my update video from today: ua-cam.com/video/QTKVuppNMow/v-deo.html
With your cut off the main method, do you let the plant grow behind the pumpkin all season or do you dead head it as the season goes? I have one at day 10 I am trying to decide which method is better. Thanks.
I end the growth just because I run out of room. I would not let your plant get larger than 1200 SqFt.
I know it a while since your response, but if you had the room, why would 1200sqft be the limit? @@ColoradoGiants
Do you end up going back and cutting the leafstalks all the way down to the vine? If I cut them part way up like you did in the video, mine fill up with water and rot. I know you are in a greenhouse and use drip irrigation, but thought maybe your misters would fill them with water.
That is a good point, I probably should cut them off as close as possible and not leave a little cup. But I dont.
Man i had a late start and live in a higher elevation, but my pumpkin is going strong. Hope it hits a couple hundred pounds before season ends. And wow 30lbs per day is just fast in my mind. Is covering the pumpkin necessary and why?
Hey Jeff -you can do it! 30lb is about avg in our world. Once you hit 50-70lb day then you have something special going! I cover them with a sheet to keep the sun off of the pumpkin so the skin stays baby soft.
3rd year grower and still haven't made it past a 1000 lbs ..... and who ever said It was easy growing pumpkins has never grown a giant.
Learning curve for sure.
1000lbs is still good!
What do you feed to this girls!
Lots of water and fertilizer!