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Wednesday, August 19, 2015
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Big Daddy Punkin
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North Carolina
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It has been a tough year in the pumpkin patch. We started 11 pumpkins with the intent to cull down to 5. Disease has culled us down to 1 lone hope. The 1530 Gehweiler is growing well for us. This picture was 11 days ago. The pumpkin was taping 632 then. This past Friday she taped 764. Bruce and I started this year "chasing the quad" (1000 lb mark). Now we're just chasing a scale. We're flying on a wing and a prayer, but if we can hold her together we might make 1000 yet. We've been fighting all kinds of issues all season with this plant, but it's late August and we are still in the game and that's something to celebrate.
If she tapers down slowly, Bruce and I are going to start losing sleep over this one in a couple of weeks, and that's a beautiful thing. If it all falls apart on us, two brothers will have grown closer by sharing a struggle together, and that ain't so bad either.
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