Pumpkin Growing Challenge !!

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I was in Portugal with team mates but it wasnt a holiday! More a Soviet style training camp before the Worlds in Bled at the end of the month.

Ooh I wanted to tell you something interesting- but I'll find your thread about starting a nursery.

 

Massive triffids spreading over your plots.

Pete has a monster growing an inch a day, surprise reunions and a disembowelled rabbit.

Love this thread.

 

Melinda..and inch is nothing for these giants when they really get going, I've read they can put on 25lb in a day!!

Steve...

 

Interesting John, I had not noticed a scent on mine. Looks like yours are doing very well !!

Steve...

 

Well my pumpkin plant has now reached the top of out conifer hedge; about 8ft, including about 6ft of horizontal growth that's now about 11ft of plant!!!! (taking off the height of the compost bin) in just a few weeks (planted on 19th July), lots of male flowers and some enormous leaves, just measured the biggest at 31" across !!!

I know the compost bin contained well rotted garden compost, rotted horse manure and I added some chicken maure pellets....but it seems I have created a monster ha ha ha :D

 

And now the picture of the monster :D, just 6 days after the pic in post no.124!!!

 

Just thought i would show you how my first ever Pumpkin is doing :happydance:, i had two more smaller ones on the go yesterday but some how one has just fell off since then :(, also i noticed a slug around the plants so i picked him up and flung him out the garden, will slugs try and eat the Pumpkins or the plant?? and do i need to put anything under the Pumpkin to protect it while growing?

Picture was taken with my mobile, so not a great shot :D

 

My experience is that slugs are perhaps a problem for young plants but once the plant gets going they avoid it, too prickly I'm thinking.

If a small pumpkin falls of or gets eaten by slugs, my guess is its not set and wont grow anyway.

I dont put anything under mine but you can if you want to, it wont hurt.

 

I gave mine a really good soaking before going on holiday, but one (previously the best one) was wilting on my return. Another year I might set up a water barrel of feed with tap, hose and trickle watering arrangements.

 

I am struggling to get any set .. I am backing one my only one to date on the allotment but I have limited water there ..

Dave

 

My plant has put on another 2ft+ in the last 3 days and the first female flower has opened this morning and has just been "manually" pollinated :D with fresh pollen from a male flower that has opened at the same time. Time will tell if I've been successful :thumb: if so, not sure how big it will get in what remains of the summer????

 

flowerpot, I have put straw under mine while some other allotmenteers have put trays or flat pieces of plastic.

 

Not looking good here . My only one has fallen ...I see a few more small ones not yet flowered ..Fingers crossed ..

Dave