Grower Diaries - BigPumpkins.com


Select Destination			Site Search

Grower Diaries

Entry Date	Nick Name		Location
Tuesday, September 19, 2017		Henry-the giant pumpkin grower	Topsfield, MA

Entry 313 of 425

Grower Diary Menu
	Back to Previous Page
	Show Full 2017 Diary
	List Other Grower's Diaries
	Submit to Your Own Diary

I am in shock. What a disappointing end to my season. The 1223.5 has gone down! I am going to tell How it all happened. So I felt the pumpkin today and I shook it a little and it was shaking a lot! Back and forth. I knew I had to make a phone call so I did. So Woody came over and we made the decision to go get the tripod to lift it to see what the damage was. We thought it could be rotting. So we lifted it up and we spotted no signs of any holes that went into the pumpkin. We did find this one spot where some mice chewed BUT that spot was all healed up. We checked entire pumpkin and everything else looked fine! We did notice the pumpkin was warmer then normal. The bottom of the pumpkin was soft let me explain why. So we cut open the pumpkin and we were shocked. It was soupy everywhere! There had to be 50 gallons of soup in there! The most frustrating part was that I will never know what caused the pumpkin to rot. The bottom was fine With no holes. Then I thought maybe air got into the pumpkin then it healed over but that could not of been the case because then the hole would've been too deep to heal over! Honestly I do not know what the cause of this was. It had to start like a week ago or two because it takes time to get soupy like that. I am very disappointed and I was looking forward to the weighoff next Friday. I had no control over it. Thank you Woody for helping me this season on growing these giants. You have taught me so much and I could not have done this without you. You have sprayed pesticides for me and you have helped me every step of the way. Thank you. I am going to give it another shot next year. I may or may not grow these seeds from this pumpkin. I have a lot of thinking to do. This was a solid pumpkin. This sucks and I did not expect this to happen but I just have to process it and get at it again next year. Thank you again Woody! Your the best!