chop stick help push the giant pumpkin vine down
If you were sick enough endeavor to develop jumbo pumpkin this yr , here is some advice from this obsessional giant pumpkin raiser !
To uprise a giant pumpkin , you must BABY them . They need a lot of CARE . It ’s like stir A VERY big fry or more like JABBA THE HUT . You do n’t go out and just throw some semen in the ground and expect to mature a track record pumpkin . You would n’t be able-bodied to go out and become a world boxing champ without training , lots of proper food and working up for it and so it is with giant Cucurbita pepo . A person take me last class at the GPC ( Great Pumpkin Commonwealth ) weigh - off in Colorado Springs , Co how do I get them ? I asked him if he planted some and he allege , “ Yes , but they did n’t do anything ” . So I asked him if he amended the grunge , had them on a fertilizer program , used constitutional antimycotic agent for disease , did any preventive louse mastery or hand pollinated them just for starter . He said , “ No , I did n’t do any of that . I just put the seed in the ground ” . I told him that ’s belike why he was n’t successful . Then he asked me , “ What do you feed these bragging pumpkins ? ” For which I responded count at his kid , “ diminished children ” ! Then he grabbed his child and ran off ! The point being you must be some kind of nut to want to produce these behemoths !
chop sticks help push the giant pumpkin vine down
Today I fertilized the pumpkin plants , greenie and marrows with Seaweed and Pisces emulsion and impart Super Thrive since I took off the nicety cloth and they have to aline again . beware you they still have a humiliated burrow over them and another stratum of row cover directly on them but I am now wean them off so much protection since they have gone through their first adjustment well and I see young growth . I also started them on ‘ Companion ’ , an constituent fungicide , which helps hospital ward off fungal diseases . All these things go in a bucketful of water so it ’s easy to apply . They are still accept 1/2 gal of water system a day . I also put chop stick over the stem turn ( see picture ) , do an ‘ x ’ with them , gently pushing the vine down towards the ground . Push the sticks with the plant a little far towards the ground every few days until the plant is lie on the ground . If you let them stay tall , they could snap off in the malarkey so I must train them to lay low ! This pumpkin plant in the picture comes from the same one that last year grow the 2010 NM State Record . I also have it ’s full cousin plant ( who come from a bigger pumpkin ) , but this plant is already much bigger than it ’s cousin . I love this seed !
