Author Topic: giant pkn time again (Read 34661 times)

Dandytown · « **Reply #60 on:** June 29, 2011, 12:48:00 »

Well Andy

There small and then there's this pumpkin. Check out the link

http://www.avantnews.com/news/415108-south-carolina-pumpkin-farmer-grows-worlds-smallest-pumpkin

Andy H · « **Reply #61 on:** June 29, 2011, 12:51:23 »

Thats mine! Wondered where it went! ::)

brownowl23 · « **Reply #62 on:** June 29, 2011, 13:34:22 »

andy yours can have a competition with mine then.

slyfox-mal · « **Reply #63 on:** June 29, 2011, 16:16:08 »

stick with it andy and im sure you will get youre reward in the end
regards mal

Sinbad7 · « **Reply #64 on:** June 29, 2011, 23:23:23 »

I'm sure I'm going to give Andy and brownowl a run for the money for the smallest giant pumpkin ;D

Been away for a couple of days (sure that's not allowed) so am looking forward to see how much it has grown since Friday.

Photo to follow tomorrow to give Andy and Brownowl encouragement:)

lisaparkin · « **Reply #65 on:** July 02, 2011, 09:28:39 »

Quote from: slyfox-mal on June 28, 2011, 15:56:02

it seems like everyone is enjoying the good weather my plants are starting to take off real nice now the 1145.5 is doing pretty good

its about 12 feet long right now and plenty of side vines on it here is a side shot of it

can just see a female flower developing in the growing tip so should if all goes well pollenate it in the next two weeks

Please excuse what is possibly a silly question, but, why the canes?

slyfox-mal · « **Reply #66 on:** July 02, 2011, 11:36:17 »

not a silly question at all the canes serve two purposes one is to control the plant and make it grow the way i want it and secondly it helps against wind rock which can murder the plant in no time if it snaps the main vine regards mal

lisaparkin · « **Reply #67 on:** July 02, 2011, 20:39:20 »

Thank you, now I know ;D

slyfox-mal · « **Reply #68 on:** July 06, 2011, 20:05:43 »

my plant as of today its really growing strong now i have had to start to terminate side vines already as they have reached thier limit on space im only terminating one vine at a time so i dont shock the plant to much

the plant is now 15 feet long and at its widest 18 ft

Dandytown · « **Reply #69 on:** July 07, 2011, 10:16:26 »

Looking good Mal. Mine is at 15' but is only about 12' wide. Had to pinch out a fruit at 12' yesterday as it had seeds outside the fruit. Next will be on the 3rd, 4th or 5th righthandside secondary's or at 15' in 8days time. ???

Nigel B · « **Reply #70 on:** July 08, 2011, 03:06:35 »

Quote from: Dandytown on July 07, 2011, 10:16:26

Looking good Mal. Mine is at 15' but is only about 12' wide. Had to pinch out a fruit at 12' yesterday as it had seeds outside the fruit. Next will be on the 3rd, 4th or 5th righthandside secondary's or at 15' in 8days time. ???

???
What strange language is this? I tried to interpret it in Babelfish, but that made possibly even less sense....

Confused of Denbighshire.... :-\

slyfox-mal · « **Reply #71 on:** July 08, 2011, 09:41:19 »

i shall try to explain his plant is 15 ft long and 12 feet wide he has culled a fruit out of the plant at a distance of 12 feet on the main vine as it has seeds showing inside the flower head the next available fruit ready to pollenate will be on a side vine either on the 3rd 4th or 5th side vine on the right hand side of the plant or a female on the main vine at about 15 feet out from the stump and it should open and be ready to pollenate in about 8 days time hope this helps regards mal

Dandytown · « **Reply #72 on:** July 08, 2011, 10:44:47 »

Thanks Mal, I may have to run all further communications through you for translation ;D

I pollinated a flower on the 3rd vine on the right hand side of the plant this morning. I only had one male flower to do the job and got in just before it rained. I did cover it. Fingers crossed as the clock is ticking and I really want to see something growing :)

Sinbad7 · « **Reply #73 on:** July 09, 2011, 09:38:36 »

I had a quick look yesterday and I seem to have only male flower, a lot of them. When will I get a female one?

I presumed the males were the ones with the long stems ;D

I really haven't got a clue but so want to grow a large pumpkin. It's kind of taking over the plot but I'm going to try to train it to go the other way today, hopefully as it's just met the marrow plant.

Squash64 · « **Reply #74 on:** July 12, 2011, 04:57:10 »

This is my plant, it looks tiny compared to Mal's.

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I put the water containers around it to protect it from the strong winds we get on the site.

Andy H · « **Reply #75 on:** July 12, 2011, 20:23:12 »

Wow thats massive! :-[

pete JB · « **Reply #76 on:** July 14, 2011, 16:39:54 »

Sorry for being a complete clutz, but how do you post pics on a message ?

I looked on the help section but it wasn`t clear (to a technophobe anyway)

Pete

lisaparkin · « **Reply #77 on:** July 14, 2011, 16:44:14 »

Get an account on 'flickr', upload photos onto there, select the photo you want to put on here by clicking on it, click on the arrow thing above the photo where the 'facebook and twitter' sign is and copy the 'bb' code, then paste the 'bb' code onto here...........arghhh hope that makes sense

pete JB · « **Reply #78 on:** July 14, 2011, 17:30:31 »

Ok, I hope this works. Here are some pics from my polytunnel. Things are going ok in there although it gets very hot during the day.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/65218770@N06/5937419756/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/65218770@N06/5937416120/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/65218770@N06/5936855101/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/65218770@N06/5936824763/

Lets know how you are getting on everyone.

Pete

pete JB · « **Reply #79 on:** July 14, 2011, 17:33:57 »

Sinbad. It`s quite normal to get lots of male flowers before the female ones. I`m afraid you will have to be patient, they will come but only in their own time.

Pete

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