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1 - The weekend of July 15, I finally got around to taking a few photos of the giant pumpkin plants out in the fields.
They were planted about 3 weeks ago, but were planted a bit too close together. There is some room to grow, but certainly not 100 square feet per plant. Should be interesting.
I think we should have a little staff meeting and decide who should be feeding, weeding and caring for these plants. Hmmmm.
The plant to the left is about 12 feet long and growing fast. The regular pumpkin plants are about 4 foot at this point. Amazing difference. Also, the Giant Pumpkins have already blossomed and set fruit. |
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2 - The female pumpkin blossom is shown at left. You can tell a female blossom by the swelling just below the blossom. After pollenation, the blossom will fall off, and the swelling with turn into a growing pumpkin. |
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3 - The plants are far too close together. We've got got decide whether and which plants to cull - and soon. |
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4 - The fruit has been set on this plant. |
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5 - The plant to the left is about 17 feet long, and already has at least one fruit on it, the size of a small cantaloup. We've got to do something about the weeds here. |
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6 - A close up of the fruit on this pumpkin plant. But it's only about 2 feet from the root - which is too close. The giant pumpkins can grow more than 2 feet high, which would cause the pumpkin to actually pulls its own root out of the ground. |
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7 - Very large leaves on these plants, and the vines are very large too. |
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8 - Two pumpkin sets on this plant. One may have to be cut. |
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9 - This plant has found a rut where a tractor got onto the field when it was a little too moist. The vines seem to like the rut... moist there and out of the wind. |
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