That is an awesome looking pumpkin. Is it a large variety? It already looks like it is about 12-15 lbs.my biggest pumpkin
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2014 Pumpkin Patch Thread
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Thanks! Some of the plants are looking a little better. I'm glad that you are getting rain, we Californians have forgotten what rain is : )Oh it's been totally crazy weather here, too. Very un-summer like, lol. It has also been suddenly quite dry, so the PM is probably just blowing all over the neighborhood and infecting everyone's plants over here. We need some rain! It's supposed to tonight, finally, we will see...my luck we will get tons of rain, the temps will drop again, then I'll have some random bug or mildew issues next, lol. Lovely weather...
Hope you can keep your PM under control, too! It's a pain, but it's sometimes possible. Good luck!
Awww! Not cool. That's just heartbreaking. Yeah, raccoons LOVE pumpkins. My mom always has to keep her pumpkins indoors until close to Halloween, or they just get eaten. She has tons of wildlife down by her house, as it's in the woods. Those masked bandits were usually the culprits of the pumpkins being munched on. I love raccoons, and all animals, but they can sure get into stuff! My mother in law has a cement ledge along her garage that she places her little pumpkins and gourds on each year. Last year, she put the JBL's she grew up there, alternating with fake ones. By the time Halloween came, there were only fake ones remaining...the animals had gotten every single real one each night, one by one.
Rain!! It has finally rained...I don't have to go outside today and water all my pumpkins and plants by hand! Wow, did we need this.
Wow, did we need this.
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Well, the mystery pumpkin is living up to the mystery...no idea what we're going to get out of it...
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One on another vine (so could be an entirely different crossbreed) seems to have set, and has a more rounded shape.
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Here's what I got when I tried to save wolf seeds. Really unremarkable little football sized things with no awesome stem, but it's a really BIG plant, and it's got 4 pumpkins on already, so a good producer.
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One on another vine (so could be an entirely different crossbreed) seems to have set, and has a more rounded shape.
Here's what I got when I tried to save wolf seeds. Really unremarkable little football sized things with no awesome stem, but it's a really BIG plant, and it's got 4 pumpkins on already, so a good producer.
Ahhh, I see now.
There are not enough angry pumpkin faces in the world to express my anger right now. Someone ripped one of my fully ripened pumpkins off the vine. To make matters worse, they didn't leave it, or even take it to keep it...they dropped it on the ground and broke it. I hoped it was just an animal, but there were no teeth marks, it happened during the middle of the day and, just before I found it on the ground, I heard one of the neighborhood kids in my yard being very loud and making trouble. I wish I had gone to check on her a minute earlier...maybe I could've saved my pumpkin... I would like to hope it wasn't her...and give her the benefit of the doubt...but she is just a brat of a little girl and she was right there at the exact time...sigh. Regardless if it was her, one of the other kids or an animal, I am now terrified for the rest of my pumpkins... I just hope it was a one time thing. Time for me to have pumpkin anxiety the rest of the season...
It's tempting...lol.
That stinks! So sorry. I know all too well the horrors of having a neighbor child wreaking havoc on pumpkins.
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So, mystery vine 1 seems to have maxed out it's size around a JBL. The color seems to be darkening toward more tan than orange though.
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Mystery vine 2 is more round and heading toward baseball size with similar coloring to #1.
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And now mystery vine 3 produced this teardrop shape with standard pumpkin green.
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Mystery vine 2 is more round and heading toward baseball size with similar coloring to #1.
And now mystery vine 3 produced this teardrop shape with standard pumpkin green.
WitchyKitty- a visit to the brat's parents, perhaps? If they're not receptive I'd have no qualms about electric fencing it. Then when the parents complain "oh, well since you said it couldn't have possibly been your little angel, I assumed we had a deer problem, so I acted accordingly."
I'm so sorry, I would be livid.
I'm so sorry, I would be livid.
Parents should be teaching their kids to respect others property and not to trespass. I'm old school when it comes to things like this and it's how I was brought up. I can't speak for everyone but I have ZERO tolerance for things like this. Parents with kids that do stuff like this are in for a world of trouble if they don't straighten them out before the kid is in his/her teens. Hopefully the rest of your harvest remains safe.
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