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Tx

ok, went to the feed store this morn. and got some liquid fish & seaweed plus, 4-2-3says add 3 to 5 tbsp. to 1 gal. water and the guy said feed in the morn. he also said I could add some garlic tea to this, what do you think????

7/31/2007 1:14:44 AM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

sounds good...the garlic is to ward off the bugs...

7/31/2007 7:15:22 AM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

I also hate to wreck your season. But you are not growing Atlantic Giants. The Pumpkin in your picture is C Pepo. Start green turn orange. C Maxima start yellow and turn orange.

7/31/2007 7:25:23 AM

Georgia

I also noticed that Shannon Ive been growing Prizewinners and all sorts of pumpkins for years. This is my first real year growing Atlantic Giants and that picture looks like a typical Jack O lantern. Lyjg47 are the vines and leave stalks plus stems real sharp. I mean do they prick you when you touch them especially the stems?

7/31/2007 9:34:03 AM

Tx

yes, sharp little boogers. well at least I know what I have, can you tell me if they are doing what they should be? I don't mind that they are just jack o lanterns they are my grandsons' and that is why he got them probably. like I said he left it behind when he moved and I inherited it, he's four and I would like to finish what he started. I will mix up the solution I talked about above later today and apply this eve. when sun goes down. jacks are growing slow but still looking pretty healthy- should I leave all 5 jacks or abort some of them to save at least 1 or 2? thanks for all the help and advice.

7/31/2007 12:02:25 PM

Georgia

I also grow jack O lanterns actually this is my first year at growing Ags for weight. Jack o lanterns which I like to call them are also a lot of fun to grow. I usually grow about 3 Pumpkins per plant and you can get a decent size Pumpkin that way. Everything your doing sounds good. The fert sounds fine and garlic tea wouldnt hurt at all. I place my Jacks on little peices of plywood or foam and they turn out real preety every year.

7/31/2007 12:21:23 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

I'd guess Stephen (my son) was about 4 when we last grew Prizewinners. That fall we stopped at a popular farm to see their corn maze, etc & to buy other fall holiday stuff. Well he saw this big pumpkin & asked why ours weren't that big. A Google search for seeds led me here & I've never left. LOL

7/31/2007 11:54:04 PM

Wood River, IL (kennyw_49@yahoo.com)

Steve,

My daughter did the same thing. And that's how I ended up here. What we won't do for our childern. And I wouldn't change a minute of it. My daughter told her Gramdma last week that our biggest pumpkin was " about the size of mommy's head" LOL

Really makes you wonder about these parents, that drown there own childern in a river, hang them in the closet, kill them and bury them in the backyard. I can't wrap my brain around it.

Sorry folks for taking this posting there.

Kenny

8/1/2007 6:55:52 AM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

Kenny thats because they did not grow pumpkins...everyone knows pumpkin growers are the nicest people on the earth..

8/1/2007 8:01:50 AM

Ray, North Dakota

Yep, three years ago started me off with a 77 lb Big Max, and I searched around on the Internet and landed here too. I won't have as good a year as last year (maybe?), but it is fun watching these things grow.

8/1/2007 9:17:30 AM

Ray, North Dakota

I found some Alaska Fish Fertilizer at Walmart this year, and it was reasonable at $5 a quart. I've been trying to mix it with dry seaweed and put through a Miracle Gro Injector, but I end up with fishy seaweed sludge.

I have a weak stomach, and that fish fertilizer right out of the bottle smells like dog poo. But like I posted in my diary, vomit in the garden is "organic". lol.

Seems to be working nice though.

8/1/2007 9:20:37 AM

Farmville, Virginia (mfowler@hsc.edu)

Two years ago I grew Big Max. In an effort to get as much out of it as I could I found this site for info. I got a 123 pounder that year but after all the reading here I stepped up to the AG's last year. What a difference! My daughter is also amazed by them but things I'm nuts just the same for all the work I put in them...of course my wife thinks the same thing but I guess thats expected!

8/1/2007 10:10:25 AM