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Manitoba

Over the years, after the growing season, when you cut open your kins, do you folks notice that some fruits have denser, thicker, heavier, healthier-looking flesh than others, which may have loose, punky, holey flesh?

If this is correct, then the Weight Estimate Chart, based purely on measurements, would be highly interpretive, would it not. What do you all think.

It's not fair! LOL!

8/28/2015 1:58:14 PM

Eastern Pennsylvania

Yes, that's why the pumpkins that go heavy to the charts are highly sought after. To take these genes for dense walls and put them in the next generation. Sometimes when I open one up (usually a squash for me since I don't grow anything but orange) it looks like ice balls or calcium balls in there or something.

8/29/2015 10:33:40 AM

JACKSON, WISCONSIN. ; )

Yes I have seen heavy to chart and light to chart all from the same patch... Normally the heavy ones cut like hard wood. Light ones cut more like soft pine .... Wall thickness varies a lot in kins as well... Some 3 to 4 inches some like 10 to 12

8/29/2015 11:32:48 AM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

Having carved/sculpted just a few giants, I can tell you the pumpkin can have two different flesh types. One is a solid dense flesh that carves like butter. Then next is a fibrous dense flesh that is difficult to carve. If the butt and blossom remain dense. This is where your weight comes from. I often see when pumpkins with thin blossom end, they also weigh light the chart.

8/29/2015 11:53:24 AM

Manitoba

Thanks to all of you for your replies!

Linus, what do you mean by a pumpkin having a "thin" blossom end.

8/30/2015 12:56:49 AM

Muddy Waters

My 1947 was about 3 to 4 inches thick at the blossom.Would that be thin? or considered thick? Linus?? Just asking? Not looking for a arguement.

8/30/2015 9:56:55 AM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

The end with the nub, which is normally where splits occur. Mark it all depends on if it is uniform. If you have never crawl up inside a big one, you should. Each rib joint can be easily seen, once your remove the seeds and filaments. Some you wonder how they ever made it to weigh off.

8/30/2015 1:50:43 PM

Muddy Waters

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=231027

Been there lol

8/30/2015 4:33:12 PM