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You are very welcome. Good luck  :)

Pete

Pictures of my Pumpkin plant today, no flowers yet. Approx 8-9ft long. Seed = 841 turner it's 1502 wallace by 800 neily







Steve...:)

Wow, that looks a beauty Steve

My little babes are still in the greenhouse. It has been really cold wet and windy here and I thought no point even attempting to plant them out. This week looks better and I thought I'd start them off with a closh covering. I still can't imagine them being able to produce much but its all fun and learning  ;D

No flowers yet, but loads of leaves starting to increse rapdily!!

I did notice some 'feelers' starting to be sent out now.

And I'll reiterate what I said in my first post, if 1 fruit is bigger than a tennis ball, I'll be happy!!

Don't start worrying or quaking in your boots, but I now have a pumpkin growing!!!!!

It is currently smaller than a garden pea!

Quote from: Mark S on August 01, 2011, 19:28:27
Don't start worrying or quaking in your boots, but I now have a pumpkin growing!!!!!

It is currently smaller than a garden pea!

UPDATE: Its now the size of a snooker ball!!!

I'm in too!

I have one.... It's a bit bigger than a football, but not much...
It will be a good marker for next year when I can add to what I have learned about them this year....  :)
It's all good. 8)

Can I make a late entry. May be difficult to weigh though; not sure I can move it. It's still green: does that disqualify it? I have some smaller orange ones. What can we do with them other than make Halloween heads?

As long as weights and pictures are in by the end of October then the competition is open to all.

I'm keen to know how big it is if you can not move it.  You can estimate its weight and that should be okay.  See the following links for information on how to do this.

http://greatpumpkincommonwealth.com/resources.php

As to what you can do with them, well that depends on how big it is.

You could always try and make a boat and row it on a lake.  see: http://www.bigpumpkins.com/displayphoto.asp?pid=6490&gid=-52840

QuoteYou could always try and make a boat and row it on a lake

.  :o.. ;D..or make BIIIIG batch of pumpkin soup.. ::) :-X

 ;D Well mine were a right faliure, started way to late but hey worth a try  ;D I'll see if I can be a little more sorted for next year, I better get looking for some seeds!

Good luck to you all and I'm looking forward to seeing the results.

QuoteYou could always try and make a boat and row it on a lake.

It's not quite Noah's Ark size! My inability to move it may have more to do with my advanced years!

Quote from: plotstoeat on September 20, 2011, 21:44:52
Can I make a late entry. May be difficult to weigh though; not sure I can move it. It's still green: does that disqualify it? I have some smaller orange ones. What can we do with them other than make Halloween heads?

I think the green colour makes it a squash but that doesnt matter here

My pumpkin today, just after I noticed that it has almost become detatched from the main stem.   :'(


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Our site competition is on October 14th, I hope it will still be ok then.

Who is the hunk Betty ;)

Quote from: pumpkinlover on September 24, 2011, 19:56:56
Who is the hunk Betty ;)

Oh he will laugh when I tell him - it's my younger son , Al, visiting for the weekend.  :)

Is that one from my seed Betty ?

Errr.... maybe you might like to rephrase that Pete :o :o :o

LOL

;D

Quote from: pete JB on September 24, 2011, 21:14:42
Is that one from my seed Betty ?

Yes, it's your 749 Pete.